The Stratford Bust and the Droeshout Engraving

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C. Palmer, 1925 - 71 Seiten
 

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Seite 40 - He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank, but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer. His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play; and though I have enquired, I could never meet with any further account of him this way,...
Seite 25 - Shakespeare OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place...
Seite 20 - Shakespeare is of great curiosity, being the one painted by Hall before he re-coloured the bust in 1748. The letters proving this are in the possession of Richard Greene, Esq., FSA, who presented them some years ago to Fraser's Magazine.
Seite 25 - The sculptors may have had monument. s0me personal knowledge of the dramatist ; but they were mainly dependent on the suggestions of friends. The Stratford bust is a clumsy piece of work. The bald domed forehead, the broad and long face, the plump and rounded chin, the long upper lip, the full cheeks, the massed hair about the ears, combine to give the burly countenance a mechanical and unintellectual expression.
Seite 27 - Jonson's testimony does no credit to his artistic discernment ; the expression of countenance, which is very crudely rendered, is neither distinctive nor lifelike. The face is long and the forehead high ; the top of the head is bald, but the hair falls in abundance over the ears. There is a scanty moustache and a thin tuft under the lower lip. A stiff and wide collar, projecting horizontally, conceals the neck. The coat is closely buttoned and elaborately bordered, especially at the shoulders. The...
Seite 20 - Church, of inestimable value as a work of great national interest, bearing on the back a label containing the following memorandum: " This old painting of the monumental effigy of Shakespeare is a great curiosity, being one painted by Hall before he re-coloured the bust in 1748. The letters proving this are in the possession of Mr, Richard Greene. FSA, who printed them some years ago in Eraser's Magazine.
Seite 21 - I purchased this picture of Mr. Greene, who is the lineal descendant of the Rev. Joseph Greene, of Stratford, the owner of the painting about 1770. — JO HALLIWELL.
Seite 13 - ... Contributors to ye sum rais'd at ye Town-hall of Stratford upon Avon, for repairing & beautifying ye Original Monument of Shakespeare ye Poet; Agree that ye Direction and Execution of that Work, shall be committed to Mr John Hall Limner: And (provided he takes care, according to his Ability, that ye Monument shall become as like as possible to what it was when first Erected...
Seite 18 - ... as Dugdale's, but the figure agrees with the early rendering in all points in which it differs from the modern one. Rowe's edition of 1714 presents a bad copy of his first edition. Dr. Thomas in 1730 expanded Dugdale's Warwickshire into two volumes, but used the original block of the tomb unaltered. In Pope's edition of 1725, we find a remarkable variation. Vertue did not go to Stratford but to Rowe for his copy. Finding it so very inartistic, he improved the monument, making the little angels...

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