Portraits of Shakspeare, 1864. '...according to the best authorities, there is not even a portrait for which it can be asserted that he [portrait] is the most authenticated and the earliest representation of the poet that we have. It is the bust in the chancel of Stratford Church, over against his next portrait is that prefixed to the folios of is in the right upper [and] is the print by [Martin] portrait which belongs to the nation, and which was asserted to be that of Shakspeare, we have engraved to the left of the bust. It is g
Portraits of Shakspeare, 1864. '...according to the best authorities, there is not even a portrait for which it can be asserted that he [portrait] is the most authenticated and the earliest representation of the poet that we have. It is the bust in the chancel of Stratford Church, over against his next portrait is that prefixed to the folios of is in the right upper [and] is the print by [Martin] portrait which belongs to the nation, and which was asserted to be that of Shakspeare, we have engraved to the left of the bust. It is generally called the Chandos the left of the Droeshout picture we have engraved one from a print by [from] the 1640 edition of Shakspeare's Somerset portrait, on the right of the [is] stated to have been painted by Cornelius Felton Head, which is in the right lower corner, is from a fine painting, said to be by Burbage, but possessing, unfortunately, very little documentary last head, to the left of the after a print by Simon, and was for a long time in possession of Cosway, who asserted that it was painted by Zoest, or, as he and others persist in spelling it, Zoust'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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