Shakespeare's Portrait
This is the account of the production of a portrait of William Shakespeare using an anatomical drawing of his skull, the Chandos portrait and Droeshout etching, and thereby forensically constructing a portrait of the man himself.
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First...
Shakespeare's Portrait
This is the account of the production of a portrait of William Shakespeare using an anatomical drawing of his skull, the Chandos portrait and Droeshout etching, and thereby forensically constructing a portrait of the man himself.
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First of all we shall look at what other background material exists.
This portrait is called the
Sander's portrait of Shakespeare
and is dated 1603.
Martin Droeshout's engraving
of Shakespeare.
From a copy of the First Folio.
This is is a phrenological drawing of Shakespeare's skull dated 1807 and perhaps attributed to the French natural scientist Georges Curvier when a follower of the Viennese physician and phrenologist Franz-Joseph Gall.
Though the original skull, from whence the drawing was taken, is yet undiscovered it is speculated to be part of the collection taken to America by another follower of Gall, Johann Kaspar Spurzheim. Rumour has it that an infamous 'resurrection man' (transported to New Holland) was responsible for obtaining the skull for the business man and amateur natural scientist James Deville who either took it, or had it sent, to Paris and the 'Institut de France' where it finally came into the posession of Spurzheim.
