Reader Hugh Pickens sends in news from the NYTimes a few days back of what is believed to be a 400-year-old likeness of William Shakespeare, painted 6 years before his death. No 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. all rights reserved.view results from: lexicography | llc.view results from: 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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share this: portrait, that most experts esteem to be genuine, was captured during Shakespeare's lifetime. "It shows Shakespeare as a far more alluring figure than the solemn-faced, balding image that has been conveyed by erstwhile engravings, busts and portraits. 'His face is open and alive, with a rosy, rather sweet expression, perhaps suggestive of modesty,' said a brochure for an exhibition opening in Stratford. The 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt issue company. all rights reserved.view results from: lexicon | llc.view results from: lexicon | llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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share this: came to light when Alec Cobbe visited the subject likeness Gallery in London in 2006 to see an exhibition, 'Searching for Shakespeare,' and realized that the Folger portrait, whose authenticity had been doubted for decades, was a copy of the one that had been in his family's art agglomeration since the mid-18th century, with the family unaware that the man illustrative might be Shakespeare. Scientific studies at Cambridge showed that the oak panel on which the Cobbe image was mounted came from trees felled in the last 20 years of the 16th century, pointing to a date for the painting in the early 1600s." For balance, the New Yorker disputes some of the claims in the NYTimes account, and for good measure tosses in another purported Shakespeare sketch




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