Martin Droeshout (/ˈdruːʃaʊt/; April 1601 – c. 1650) was an English engraver of Flemish descent, who is best known as illustrator of the title portrait for William Shakespeare's collected works, the First Folio of 1623, edited by John Heminges and Henry Condell, fellow actors of the Bard. Nevertheless, Droeshout produced other more ambitious designs in his career.
Droeshout's artistic abilities are typically regarded as limited. The Shakespeare portrait shares many clumsy features with Droeshout's work as a whole. Benjamin Roland Lewis notes that "virtually all of Droeshout's work shows the same artistic defects. He was an engraver after the conventional manner, and not a creative artist."[1]
MartinDroeshout (/ˈdruːʃaʊt/; April 1601 – c. 1650) was an English engraver of Flemish descent, who is best known as illustrator of the title portrait...
The Droeshout portrait or Droeshout engraving is a portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by MartinDroeshout as the frontispiece for the title page...
created by MartinDroeshout and was probably commissioned by Shakespeare's friends and family. It is considered likely that the Droeshout engraving is...
In 1623, in conjunction with the publication of the First Folio, the Droeshout engraving was published. Shakespeare has been commemorated in many statues...
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identified as him, although both may be posthumous. The Droeshout portrait. An engraving by MartinDroeshout as title-page to the collected works of Shakespeare...
censor for the Inquisition. Author William Shakespeare Cover artist MartinDroeshout Country England Language Early Modern English Genre English Renaissance...
preface to the folio with this poem addressed "To the Reader" facing the Droeshout portrait engraving: This Figure, that thou here ſeeſt put, It vvas...
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of "Doctor Wurmbrandt" purging human follies was later adapted by MartinDroeshout. Dahl, Edward, Gauvin Jean-Francois,Sphaerae Mundi, David M. Stewart...
found on the third flyleaf beneath Ben Jonson's verse referencing MartinDroeshout's famous portrait engraving of Shakespeare on the facing page. Inscribed...
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which the most noteworthy are the famous portrait of Shakespeare by MartinDroeshout, William Faithorne's portrait of Thomas Stanley, David Loggan's frontispiece...
more likely a copy such as the Janssen, is possibly the source of MartinDroeshout's familiar engraving on the title page of the Shakespeare First Folio...
of Wales). Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Self-portrait (approximate date) MartinDroeshout – Engraved portrait for the 'First Folio' of William Shakespeare's...
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a miserable drawing of our poet done by himself with a pen, from MartinDroeshout's print of him engraved seven years after his death…." There were also...
eventually to be published seven years after his death." Powell calls the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare in the First Folio, and the monument to Shakespeare...
"To the Reader" commending the First Folio engraving of Shakespeare by Droeshout as a good likeness. Included in the prefatory commendatory verses was...
identity could not be explicitly given. Visual imagery, including the Droeshout portrait has also been claimed to contain hidden messages. Edwin Durning-Lawrence...
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