Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Portrait of Shakespeare, from the Fourth Folio, 1685.
Call Number
D West 44/GC106/Box 01/Normal/17th c./Artists A-Z GA 2005.00263
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcz890s717q
Publisher
1685.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1685
Extent
1 item
Source Acquisition
Gift of Charles W. McAlpin, Princeton University Class of 1888.
References
Roylance, Dale. European Graphic Arts, 1986, p. 74.
Schwartz, Lillian. The Art Historian's Computer, Scientific American, April 1995, pp. 110-111.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings
Item description: May be related to sketches of Queen Elizabeth by George Gower circulating at the time.
Inscribed in plate, below: 'To the Reader: // This Figure that thou here seest put, // It was for gentle Shakespear cut // Wherein the Graver had a strife // With Nature to outdo the Life. // O, could he but have drawn his wit // As well in Brass, as he has hit // His Face the Print would then surpass // All that was ever writ in Brass. // But since he cannot, Reader, look // Not on his Picture but his Book. // B.J.'
Signed in plate, lower left: "Martin Droeshout: Sculpsit. London".

Discovery Information

Subject
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—Portraits
Dramatists, English—16th century—Portraits
Dramatists, English—17th century—Portraits
Authors, English—16th century—Portraits
Authors, English—17th century—Portraits
Portraits, British—17th century
Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4953c993-c602-4896-9dd1-3faf35492578/manifest