• Martin Droeshout (/ˈdruːʃaʊt/; April 1601 – c. 1650) was an English engraver of Flemish descent, who is best known as illustrator of the title portrait...
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    The Droeshout portrait or Droeshout engraving is a portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by Martin Droeshout as the frontispiece for the title page...
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    created by Martin Droeshout and was probably commissioned by Shakespeare's friends and family. It is considered likely that the Droeshout engraving is...
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    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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    Bugenhagen was the pastor of the Wittenberg town church and officiated at Martin Luther's wedding. In a letter addressed to Luther and Melanchthon dated...
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    identified as him, although both may be posthumous. The Droeshout portrait. An engraving by Martin Droeshout as title-page to the collected works of Shakespeare...
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  • The Spiritual Warfare (c. 1623), a print by Martin Droeshout depicting the devil's army besieging a walled city held by a "Christian Soldier bold" guarded...
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    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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    censor for the Inquisition. Author William Shakespeare Cover artist Martin Droeshout Country England Language Early Modern English Genre English Renaissance...
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    Narratives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. xvii. One sermon was by Martin Luther ESTC 16983 and another by Urbannus Regius: An Instruction of the...
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    more likely a copy such as the Janssen, is possibly the source of Martin Droeshout's familiar engraving on the title page of the Shakespeare First Folio...
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    found on the third flyleaf beneath Ben Jonson's verse referencing Martin Droeshout's famous portrait engraving of Shakespeare on the facing page. Inscribed...
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    engravers, who came to England for economic opportunities. Engraver Martin Droeshout, famous for his 1623 portrait of William Shakespeare, was among the...
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    of "Doctor Wurmbrandt" purging human follies was later adapted by Martin Droeshout. Dahl, Edward, Gauvin Jean-Francois,Sphaerae Mundi, David M. Stewart...
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  • 1594) Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino (born 1590) Martin Droeshout, English engraver (born 1601) Nicodemo Ferrucci, Italian painter (born...
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    sonnets. This was an adapted and reversed version of the original Martin Droeshout print. Five years later, he created the image of John Milton surrounded...
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    John Howson, engraving by Martin Droeshout...
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    Marshall's portrait of Shakespeare – a reduced and reversed version of Martin Droeshout's engraving from the First Folio. This is followed by Benson's preface...
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    which the most noteworthy are the famous portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, William Faithorne's portrait of Thomas Stanley, David Loggan's frontispiece...
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  • of Wales). Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Self-portrait (approximate date) Martin Droeshout – Engraved portrait for the 'First Folio' of William Shakespeare's...
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  • Age painter (died 1672) Pieter de Bloot, Dutch painter (died 1658) Martin Droeshout, engraver (died 1650) Shi Kefa, Chinese government official and calligrapher...
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    a miserable drawing of our poet done by himself with a pen, from Martin Droeshout's print of him engraved seven years after his death…." There were also...
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    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...
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    "To the Reader" commending the First Folio engraving of Shakespeare by Droeshout as a good likeness. Included in the prefatory commendatory verses was...
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    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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  • St Ghyvan, Candice Lauwers on Cibolin Prieure Z, Jody Bosteels on Nina Droeshout, Jan Motmans on Vacant ter Linden)  Italy (Luca Marziani on Cascartho...
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