Mein herrliches Padlet by Matthis Seifert https://padlet.com/matthisseifert/3flbg0rr55erfdn3 en-us 2023-01-23 07:21:36 UTC 2026-03-09 19:05:57 UTC hello@padlet.com General facts matthisseifert https://padlet.com/matthisseifert/3flbg0rr55erfdn3/wish/2452842714 -It exists various images of William Shakespeare 
-but there is no real photo from him with a real camera because cameras didn’t exist in the Elizabethan era
  • There are just portraits, paintings,engravings (Gravuren) and sculptures of Shakespeare.
  • Is a difficult area full supposition, conjecture and guesswork 
  • Each champions that has created an image of Shakespeare insist that a particular Shakespeare image is the true representation of the man

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  • a typical shorthand image : a man with a dome- like high forehead, a beard and moustache and shoulder length hair 
  • All these similar Shakespeare images are inspire by the Droeshout engraving 

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    The Droeshout engraving is a good likeness of Shakespeare, although it is not lifelike 
    • English engraver Martin Droeshout created it for the first edition of Shakespeare’s published work known as the first folio 
    • Droeshout was 22 years old when he did the engraving 
    • He didn’t saw Shakespeare but he worked from an authentic Shakespeare 
     Portrait which hasn’t been identified yet 
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  • There are no plausibility in the assertion that it is a portrait of Shakespeare
  • It is a portrait of a young aristocrat, which Shakespeare was not Likelihood

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  • It was discovered in an attic in a house of Canada in 2002
  • A lot of experts think that this is a nice idea that this is an authentic picture of Shakespeare but there are a lot of  problems, for example that Shakespeare was 39 years old when it was painted but the painting shows a munch younger man 
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  • Was painted from Richard Burbage 
  • A member of Shakespeare’ s acting company 
  • Unlikely that it is a portrait of Shakespeare 
  • Resemble the Droeshout engraving 
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  • William Shakespeare’ s son in law commissioned the Portrait after Shakespeare’ s death 
  • it was placed above his grave in the Holy Trinity Church. 
  • general agreement that this is the likeness of Shakespeare because he looks old and bloated

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  •  Discovered in 2006
  •  A researcher at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust claimed in 2009 that it is a painting of Shakespeare, painted from life 
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  • An historian, working with a team of digital artists has spent three month updating a series of classic portraits 
  • As template they used the Cobbe portrait. 
  • They have left him pretty much as he is in the portrait but changed his hairstyle and dressed 
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