The engraved portrait on the First Folio’s title page, one of only two images of Shakespeare with a claim to likeness.
Shaped: Cut III, Ren Lyfe: Shakespeare the Player; Cut LXVI, I Like the Ruff Stuff (Shakespeare).
Source: the original on Wikimedia Commons, with its full record and licence.
Here endeth this leaf of the Cabinet, which ſheweth Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (the First Folio) (London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623), the work of Martin Droeshout and not of this preſs. The image is from Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. Gathered here for ſtudy the ſeventh day of October, 2026. Finis.
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Droeshout, Martin.
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (the First Folio).
London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623.
Wikimedia Commons (public domain), from Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University,
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Title_page_William_Shakespeare%27s_First_Folio_1623.jpg.
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