Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861, Forster, Henry Rumsey, 1815-1884 · London : D. Bogue · leaf 384
reasoning, and dispassionate inquiry, to shew that there is but one true portrait of Shakspeare atpresent known. Touching The Droeshout Head—(Fig. 1.) This engraving is generally relied on, as being the first print of Shakspeare. It is unlike the bust on his monumentat Stratford, and neither the… … The chief apology for the believers in this engraving, rests on the lines placed before it in the first edition of our authorsplays, published in 1623. These lines are attributed to Ben Jonson, a paternity which I am inclined to doubt; admitting,however, that B. I. signifies Ben Jonson, we have no…
Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of, 1797-1861 · Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 · Stowe (England) · Art
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