William Shakespeare – Historic Print
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William Shakespeare
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Samuel Cousins engraved this mezzotint of William Shakespeare after the Chandos portrait, the painting long held to be the most authentic likeness of the playwright. The plate was made for the Shakespeare Society and issued in June 1849, when interest in Shakespeare's image was growing among scholars and collectors who wanted a trustworthy face for the author. Cousins was a leading mezzotint engraver of the period, and his soft, tonal handling of the sitter's features and costume shows why his reproductions were so widely admired. The print is a useful record of how Victorian readers pictured the Bard.
| Created / published | c. 1849 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, mezzotint |
| Notes | Samuel Cousins, A.R.A. From the Chandos portrait, engraved for the Shakespeare Society, June 1849. Hubbard Collection |
| Original scan | 1,022 × 1,500 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220098 |
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