Bacon is Shake-speare . wickshireof 1656, where it appears opposite to page 523. Wecan, however, pardon Mr. Sidney Lee for his ignoranceof the existence of that engraving ; but how shall wepardon him for citing Rowe as a witness to the earlyexistence of the present bust ? To anyone not wilfullyblinded by passion and prejudice, Rowes engraving[see Plate ig. Page yy] clearly shews a figure absolutelydifferent from the Bust in the present figure is in the same attitude as the Bustof the original monument engraved by Dugdale, anddoes not hold a pen in its hand, but its two handsare
Bacon is Shake-speare . wickshireof 1656, where it appears opposite to page 523. Wecan, however, pardon Mr. Sidney Lee for his ignoranceof the existence of that engraving ; but how shall wepardon him for citing Rowe as a witness to the earlyexistence of the present bust ? To anyone not wilfullyblinded by passion and prejudice, Rowes engraving[see Plate ig. Page yy] clearly shews a figure absolutelydifferent from the Bust in the present figure is in the same attitude as the Bustof the original monument engraved by Dugdale, anddoes not hold a pen in its hand, but its two handsare supported on a wool-sack or cushion, in the samemanner as in the Bust from Dugdale which I haveshewn in Plate 5, on Page 14. What are we to say respecting the frontispiece tothe 1898 edition of what he is pleased to describe asthe Life of William Shakespeare, which Mr. SidneyLee tells us is from the Droeshout painting nowin the Shakespeare Memorial Gallery at Stratford-on-Avon ? As a matter of fact there is no Droeshout. Plate XIX. The Original Stratford Monument, from Rowes LifeOF Shakespeare, 1709. Plate XIX. The Original Stratford Monument, from LifeOF Shakespeare, 1709. Bacon is Shakespeare, yg painting. The picture falsely so called is a manifestforgery and a palpable fraud, for in it all the revealingmarks of the engraving by Martin Droeshout whichappeared in the 1623 folio are purposely full size photo facsimile of Martin Droeshouts en-graving is shewn in Plate 8, pp. 20-21. In the falseand fraudulent painting we find no double line to shewthe mask, and the coat is really a coat and not agarment cunningly composed of two left arms. Still it does seem singularly appropriate andpeculiarly fitting that Mr. Sidney Lee should haveselected as the frontispiece of the romance which hecalls the Life of Shakespeare, an engraving of thefalse and fraudulent painting now in the Stratford-on-Avon Gallery for his first ediiion of 1898 ; and shouldalso have selected an
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