Life Portraits of William Shakespeare: a History of the Various Representations of the Poet, With An Examination Into Their Authenticity
Life Portraits of William Shakespeare: a History of the Various Representations of the Poet, With An Examination Into Their Authenticity
J Hain James Hain Friswell
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Steevens found written, in an " Elizabethan hand," "Guil. Shakspeare,* 1597, * " As the poet spelt it," says a commentator. So he did, but also in other ways ; but after much consideration we have adopted this method. Digitized by Google 48 Life Portraits R.N." and although the portrait had been exposed it was in very good preservation. On inquiry, it was found that Mr. Felton had bought it for five guineas at a sale which took place at the "European Museum" in King Street, St. James' Square, i...n 1792. In the catalogue it was marked and described as " No. 359 — A curious portrait of Shakspeare painted in 1597." Mr. Felton, upon making inquiries of the auctioneer or proprietor of the Museum, received a letter in which he stated that " the head of Shakspeare was purchased out of an old house, known by the sign of the Boar^ in Eastcheap, London, where the poet and his friends used to resort ; and report says the picture was painted by a player of that time, but whose name I have not been able to learn.
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