William Shakespeare 1856 John Chester Buttre Buttre engraved this image of Shakespeare wearing a simple jacket and soft white collar for a 19th century American publication, basing the image on an 18th century engraving by Houbraken (see ). The latter had itself had been derived from the Chandos portrait of ca. 1610 (National Portrait Gallery, London), and the present work demonstrates how printmakers relied on established sources as they supplied the continued demand for likenesses of the William Shakespeare 708361

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