[Portrait of William Shakespeare] [picture] / Martin Droeshout sculpsit, London
- Bib ID:
- 2728267
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Droeshout, Martin, 1601-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- [London : s.n., after 1664]
- 1 print : engraving ; image 18.9 x 15.8 cm., plate mark 19.9 x 16.6 cm., on sheet 32.9 x 20.6 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK2860.
- Notes:
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- "Martin Droeshout, sculpsit, London"--Lower left within plate mark.
- Inscription: "De . rer . div . et acquir . ips . dominio"--Handwritten in black ink, upper centre on verso. [Transcription: "Concerning the diversity of things and acquiring them for himself "(?)]. "Print U/522"--Handwritten in pencil, lower left on verso.
- Print appears to be a corrected version of the Droeshout portrait used for the frontispiece of the folio editions of Shakespeare's plays. Reference: The title-page of the first folio of Shakespeare's plays : a comparative study of the Droeshout portrait and the Stratford monument / by M.H. Spielmann. - London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection, NK2860.
- Title devised by cataloguer.
- Watermark: "AL" [?]--Centre of sheet.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-136115703
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK2860.
- U7384.
- Subject:
- Exhibited:
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- Exhibited: Treasures Gallery NLA: Portraits of the Famous and Infamous, August 2015 - December 2015
- Exhibited: Treasures, National Library of Australia, 7 Dec. 2001 - 24 Feb. 2002.
- Copyright:
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Copyright Undetermined
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Unable to determine date of publication or creation
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Engraving
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1701
- Published status:
- Unpublished
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