The Droeshout Mask Concealing the True Authorship of the Shakespeare Works Francis Bacon

[Light-of-Truth]

1 hour ago, Allisnum2er said:

- You have  a little HOG/PIG/BOAR and a Phoenix.

Can someone pass me a hat?

https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~969275~166810:The-arraignement-of-the-vvhole-crea#

EDIT:

Adding a hat:

 

[A Phoenix]

Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

It has long been known to Baconians that the Droeshout engraving is a carefully constructed mask one readily and easily demonstrable, a reality continually ignored by orthodox scholars because it is central to the enormous Stratfordian one billion pound a year fraud that Shakspere wrote the Shakespeare works. In Bacon is Shakespeare, Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence observed ‘The back of the left arm which does duty for the right arm every tailor will admit that this is not and cannot be the front of the right arm, but is, without possibility of doubt, the back of the left arm.’

Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bacon Is Shakespeare (New York: The John McBride Co., 1910), p. 23

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[A Phoenix]

Professional Confirmation

Professional confirmation of this was provided by an anonymous tailor writing in The Gentleman’s Tailor who after noting that Sir Durning-Lawrence had stated that Shakspere ‘was only a left-handed instrument used by Lord Bacon as a kind of shield or disguise for the authorship of the immortal plays and sonnets’ remarked ‘it is passing strange that something like three centuries should have been allowed to elapse before the tailor’s handiwork should have been appealed to in this particular manner.’ He then pointed out what is only all too apparent at a glance (a fact ignored by orthodox scholars some of whom were only all too aware of its very obvious implications): 

‘The tunic, coat, or whatever the garment may have been called at the time, is so strangely illustrated that the right-hand side of the forepart is obviously the left-hand side of the backpart; and so gives a harlequin appearance to the figure, which it is not unnatural to assume was intentional, and done with express object and purpose…it is pretty safe to say that if a Referendum of the trade was taken on the question whether [the left side and right side of the forepart] represents the foreparts of the same garment, the polling would give an unanimous vote in the negative.’

             Anon., ‘A Problem For The Trade’, The Gentleman’s Tailor, 46 (1911), p. 93
 

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[A Phoenix]

Bacon & Jonson - Prime Movers

The above ‘deficiencies’ are ascribed in ignorant, false, and in some instances very deliberately fraudulent narratives by orthodox Shakespeare scholars, to the incompetence of the engraver Martin Droeshout. Yet the engraving exists in three states indicating that its creator Martin Droeshout worked very closely over a considerable period with the individuals responsible for the planning, preparing and publication of the Shakespeare First Folio, confirming the process of its development was carefully watched over at every stage, until it was consistent with how its prime movers in conjunction with its printers wanted it. 

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[Eric Roberts]

5 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

It has long been known to Baconians that the Droeshout engraving is a carefully constructed mask one readily and easily demonstrable, a reality continually ignored by orthodox scholars because it is central to the enormous Stratfordian one billion pound a year fraud that Shakspere wrote the Shakespeare works. In Bacon is Shakespeare, Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence observed ‘The back of the left arm which does duty for the right arm every tailor will admit that this is not and cannot be the front of the right arm, but is, without possibility of doubt, the back of the left arm.’

Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bacon Is Shakespeare (New York: The John McBride Co., 1910), p. 23

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

A visual pun? Left handed = sinister = deceptive

[Lawrence Gerald]

Came across this today

What went wrong with Shakespeare’s Folio Picture?

Troubles in the First Folio’s opening pages include a sweaty Shakespeare and a misplaced poem

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2023/06/27/what-went-wrong-with-shakespeares-folio-picture/

[Light-of-Truth]

10 minutes ago, Lawrence Gerald said:

Came across this today

What went wrong with Shakespeare’s Folio Picture?

Troubles in the First Folio’s opening pages include a sweaty Shakespeare and a misplaced poem

https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/discover/blogs-and-features/2023/06/27/what-went-wrong-with-shakespeares-folio-picture/

"The poem is substituted by Shakespeare’s ungainly body– a deeply cross-hatched dark doublet in a dark background – effectively a scribble, hiding whatever has gone wrong underneath."

Later...LOL

[A Phoenix]

Three Different States of the Droeshout

As the printing of the volume proceeded the engraving was deliberately altered on several occasions as illustrated by its three surviving states which all antedate the complete printing of the First Folio. In his detailed study of the seventy-nine First Folios housed at the magnificent Folger Shakespeare Library, Professor Charlton Hinman points out some of the differences in the three known states:

State I is most readily identified by its lack of any shading on the ruff under the ear. Only a few impressions of this ‘proof state’ of the engraving would seem to have been made before the plate was considerably modified, since State 1 is represented in the Folger collection by only a single copy, Folg. 2.

   State II shows shading on the ruff; the high-light in each eye is represented by a small but fairly regular rectangle of white; the silhouette of the hair on the right side is sharp and smooth. Evidently a fair number of impressions were taken from the once-altered plate, for State II is found in six Folger copies (Folg. 1, 7, 13, 14, 20, and 72), and this state is also represented in the Lee facsimile.

In State III a small wedge of black pierces from the top the rectangle of white in each of the eyes; and this state also shows, about midway along the silhouette of the hair on the right side, what may be taken to represent a single hair that is slightly out of place. (These peculiarities are so small as easily to escape notice; but there can be no doubt that they reflect changes deliberately made in the plate and hence that they define a genuine third state.) State III is much commoner than State II. It is seen in some two dozen Folger copies. 

Charlton Hinman, The Printing And Proofreading Of The First Folio Of Shakespeare (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1963), I, pp. 248-49

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[A Phoenix]

20th Century Stratfordian Commentators

Regarding its elusive engraver Martin Droeshout, modern authoritative orthodox Shakespeare scholars have conspired in a vast fraudulent conspiracy and deliberately lied to the world about his so-called incompetence to maintain the fiction and illusion that the illiterate/semi-illiterate William Shakspere wrote the Shakespeare plays, exampled by the following:  

The early twentieth century orthodox Shakespeare authority Sir Sidney Lee, the Professor of English Language at the University of London, President of the English Association, Chairman of the Trustees of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, & editor of the Oxford facsimile of the First Folio:
‘The engraving was doubtless produced by Droeshout just before the publication of the First Folio in 1623, when he had completed his twenty-second year. It thus belongs to the outset of the engraver’s professional career, in which he never achieved practice or reputation. ‘

In his still standard two volume work The Shakespeare Documents that he dedicated to Henry Folger, founder of the Shakespeare Library, Professor B. Roland Lewis, Vice-President of the International Shakespeare Society & senior member of the Modern Language Association of America:
‘Martin Droeshout’s engraving of Shakespeare was probably one of his earliest endeavors and was produced when he was not yet of legal age. Later he produced engravings of Foxe, the martyrologist; of Richard Elton; of John Hanson, the Bishop of Durham; and of Lord Mountjoy Blunt. Others of his product were: “The Prophecies of the Sybills,” twelve in number, the fifth of which, “Sybilla Samia,” manifests the same lack of perspective that appears in his engraving of William Shakespeare; and “Seasons,” four in number. Virtually all of Droeshout’s work shows the same artistic defects. He was an engraver after the conventional manner and not a creative artist.’

The voluminous Samuel Schoenbaum, Distinguished Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Maryland, President of the Shakespeare Association of America, Vice-President of the International Shakespeare Association, & Trustee of the Folger Shakespeare Library: 
‘Even before being coarsened by touching up, the Droeshout engraving shows defects that are all too gross and that can be ascribed only to the artist’s ineptitude. The same stiffness, the same hard line, would appear in his later portraits of distinguished men: Donne, Fairfax, Villiers, and the rest.’

Sir Sidney Lee, A Life Of William Shakespeare Fourth Edition Of The Revised Version (Rewritten And Enlarged) (London: John Murray, 1925), p. 528; B. Roland Lewis, The Shakespeare Documents (Stanford University Press, 1940), II, p. 553; Samuel Schoenbaum, Shakespeare’s Lives (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1970), pp. 10-11
 

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[A Phoenix]

Fraudulent Narratives

The key elements of a fraud are very often simple and relatively easy to achieve and execute. The orthodox Shakespeare academic fraudster has numerous tools at his/her disposal. Firstly, just to simply take advantage of the trust of the naive uncritical reader easily persuaded by an authoritative figure or so-called expert with the accompanying title of professor whose works are issued by a prestigious university press. This in itself, is usually sufficient. Or alternatively, in the face of irrefutable facts and evidence the common response is simply a wall of silence, or a variant on the same theme, systematic suppression and omission. Then there is the method of arbitrary dismissal and distortion. Not forgetting of course, the downright lies and mendacity, all of it skilfully woven into their false, deceitful and fraudulent narratives.

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[A Phoenix]

Droeshout's Engraving

In the case of Sidney Lee, B. Roland Lewis and Samuel Schoenbaum whose modus operandi include some or all of the above with regard to their misleading, false and fraudulent statements regarding Martin Droeshout and his engraving for the title page of the Shakespeare First Folio, all that was required was for them to assuredly take advantage of the ignorance of their readers (the ordinary schoolmen and the casual student) and simply not produce any other Droeshout engravings. 

Unlike Sidney Lee, B. Roland Lewis and Samuel Schoenbaum and countless other orthodox Shakespeare scholars who abused the trust of their readers we do not require the reader to take the matter on trust, rather unlike the above, we will here for the first time produce several engravings by Droeshout never before seen in a work on the Shakespeare First Folio to expose and demolish this key element forming part of this gigantic Stratfordian fraud. 

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[Eric Roberts]

2 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Fraudulent Narratives

The key elements of a fraud are very often simple and relatively easy to achieve and execute. The orthodox Shakespeare academic fraudster has numerous tools at his/her disposal. Firstly, just to simply take advantage of the trust of the naive uncritical reader easily persuaded by an authoritative figure or so-called expert with the accompanying title of professor whose works are issued by a prestigious university press. This in itself, is usually sufficient. Or alternatively, in the face of irrefutable facts and evidence the common response is simply a wall of silence, or a variant on the same theme, systematic suppression and omission. Then there is the method of arbitrary dismissal and distortion. Not forgetting of course, the downright lies and mendacity, all of it skilfully woven into their false, deceitful and fraudulent narratives.

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

Hi A.P.

"Arbitary dismissal" is not a form of academic discourse to my knowledge. It's a form of denial. "You can't face the truth," as Jack Nicholson said.

[Eric Roberts]

2 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Droeshout's Engraving

In the case of Sidney Lee, B. Roland Lewis and Samuel Schoenbaum whose modus operandi include some or all of the above with regard to their misleading, false and fraudulent statements regarding Martin Droeshout and his engraving for the title page of the Shakespeare First Folio, all that was required was for them to assuredly take advantage of the ignorance of their readers (the ordinary schoolmen and the casual student) and simply not produce any other Droeshout engravings. 

Unlike Sidney Lee, B. Roland Lewis and Samuel Schoenbaum and countless other orthodox Shakespeare scholars who abused the trust of their readers we do not require the reader to take the matter on trust, rather unlike the above, we will here for the first time produce several engravings by Droeshout never before seen in a work on the Shakespeare First Folio to expose and demolish this key element forming part of this gigantic Stratfordian fraud. 

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

Thanks for enlightening me about Schoenbaum. I didn't realise he was so much a part of the Establishment.

[Lawrence Gerald]

 

Stratfordian Fraudians call their "Charity"  the "Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. "

Misleading and Obfuscating from the Public since 1847.

Rotten to the Core.

 

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Leading the world's enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare's work, life and times.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is the global centre for learning about and experiencing the work, life and times of the world’s best-known writer. Our mission is to enthuse children, young people and life-long learners with a passion for Shakespeare.

We bring the past into dialogue with the present, leading to a deeper understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare’s place in history, his works on the page and his plays in performance.

[A Phoenix]

Hi Lawrence,

Stratfraudians, indeed!

[A Phoenix]

Professor June Schlueter

First however instead of the false and fraudulent statements made by orthodox Shakespeare scholars let us familiarise ourselves with the objective critical assessment by Professor June Schlueter, the world authority on Martin Droeshout and his engravings:

‘Some two dozen copperplate engravings are extant which were done in London between 1621 or 1622 and 1635, including portraits of Shakespeare, the first duke of Buckingham, John Foxe, John Donne, and Queen Elizabeth, and two dozen more from his years in Madrid (1635-40), among them portraits of Juan de Avila, Simon de Rojas, Juan Prez de Montalban and Francisco de la Pena, as well as frontispieces and title pages for several books. Clearly, the younger Martin was well regarded in London when his work attracted the attention of the Spanish court. . .Shakespeareans continue to puzzle over how a twenty-two-year-old novice engraver could have been given the commission for the folio portrait and produced, in their judgement, so poor a result…But if it is an inferior work, its faults are anomalous, for Droeshout’s other engravings which were done in London in the 1620s, also of public figures, show considerable expertise’

June Schlueter, Martin Droeshout, (b. 1601, d. in or after 1640) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2018-22)

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[A Phoenix]

Droeshout Engravings

In his recent article ‘English Broadsides-1’ appearing in Print Quarterly Malcom Jones proposes that of the eleven portraits made by Droeshout listed in Hind that one or two of them may well date from 1621 or 1622. Perhaps the most likely of these (Hind no. 5) is the one of William Fairfax, General of the English troops in the Palatinate, who died in 1621, making a likely date of 1621 or 1622. There is also, he says, a further set of engravings by Droeshout he believes date to 1622, the series entitled Saints (Hind no. 19) that corresponds to an entry in the Stationers’ Register dated 15 March 1622 ‘portractures of the fower fathers, or Doctors of the Church, viz. Augustine, Ambrose and Gregory grauen in Copper’, entered to Henry Holland. In his article Jones also produced for the first time (a later impression dating from the early 1680s) a sheet engraved by Droeshout entitled The Spiritual Warfare held ‘uniquely’ in the Bruce Peel Special Collections of the Library of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The engraving is signed MDhout sculpsit preceded by Ric. Cotes inuentor, i.e., Richard Cotes the London printer. The Spiritual Warfare was entered on the Stationers’ Register on 4 December 1623 ‘Nicholas Okes. Entered for his Copie under the hands of Master Doctor Worrall, and Master Cole warden, A Table called The Spirituall warfare invented by Ricard Cotes and grauen by Martin Droset’.

                                                  Malcolm Jones, ‘English Broadsides-1’, Print Quarterly, 18 (2001), pp. pp. 152-54

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[A Phoenix]

Other Examples of Droeshout’s Work
 

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

1 MINUTE TRAILER: https://youtu.be/j7PhxKNACSw

[Eric Roberts]

1 hour ago, Lawrence Gerald said:

 

Stratfordian Fraudians call their "Charity"  the "Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. "

Misleading and Obfuscating from the Public since 1847.

Rotten to the Core.

 

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Leading the world's enjoyment and understanding of Shakespeare's work, life and times.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is the global centre for learning about and experiencing the work, life and times of the world’s best-known writer. Our mission is to enthuse children, young people and life-long learners with a passion for Shakespeare.

We bring the past into dialogue with the present, leading to a deeper understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare’s place in history, his works on the page and his plays in performance.

Reads like a statement from the Vatican.

[Eric Roberts]

6 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Professor June Schlueter

First however instead of the false and fraudulent statements made by orthodox Shakespeare scholars let us familiarise ourselves with the objective critical assessment by Professor June Schlueter, the world authority on Martin Droeshout and his engravings:

‘Some two dozen copperplate engravings are extant which were done in London between 1621 or 1622 and 1635, including portraits of Shakespeare, the first duke of Buckingham, John Foxe, John Donne, and Queen Elizabeth, and two dozen more from his years in Madrid (1635-40), among them portraits of Juan de Avila, Simon de Rojas, Juan Prez de Montalban and Francisco de la Pena, as well as frontispieces and title pages for several books. Clearly, the younger Martin was well regarded in London when his work attracted the attention of the Spanish court. . .Shakespeareans continue to puzzle over how a twenty-two-year-old novice engraver could have been given the commission for the folio portrait and produced, in their judgement, so poor a result…But if it is an inferior work, its faults are anomalous, for Droeshout’s other engravings which were done in London in the 1620s, also of public figures, show considerable expertise’

June Schlueter, Martin Droeshout, (b. 1601, d. in or after 1640) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2018-22)

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

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Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

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There is a stiffness and stylised formality in his representations of human figures throughout his career. You could say they are emblematic rather than naturalistic.

 

Edited July 17 by Eric Roberts

[Eric Roberts]

6 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Droeshout Engravings

In his recent article ‘English Broadsides-1’ appearing in Print Quarterly Malcom Jones proposes that of the eleven portraits made by Droeshout listed in Hind that one or two of them may well date from 1621 or 1622. Perhaps the most likely of these (Hind no. 5) is the one of William Fairfax, General of the English troops in the Palatinate, who died in 1621, making a likely date of 1621 or 1622. There is also, he says, a further set of engravings by Droeshout he believes date to 1622, the series entitled Saints (Hind no. 19) that corresponds to an entry in the Stationers’ Register dated 15 March 1622 ‘portractures of the fower fathers, or Doctors of the Church, viz. Augustine, Ambrose and Gregory grauen in Copper’, entered to Henry Holland. In his article Jones also produced for the first time (a later impression dating from the early 1680s) a sheet engraved by Droeshout entitled The Spiritual Warfare held ‘uniquely’ in the Bruce Peel Special Collections of the Library of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The engraving is signed MDhout sculpsit preceded by Ric. Cotes inuentor, i.e., Richard Cotes the London printer. The Spiritual Warfare was entered on the Stationers’ Register on 4 December 1623 ‘Nicholas Okes. Entered for his Copie under the hands of Master Doctor Worrall, and Master Cole warden, A Table called The Spirituall warfare invented by Ricard Cotes and grauen by Martin Droset’.

                                                  Malcolm Jones, ‘English Broadsides-1’, Print Quarterly, 18 (2001), pp. pp. 152-54

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

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Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

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Hi A. Phoenix

This would suggest that the First Folio engraving was made immediately after the Four Fathers and just before Spiritual Warfare. Would you agree?

[A Phoenix]

Hi Eric,

Yes, I would agree that it is very likely that the Droeshout was made afterThe Four Fathers (SR 15 March 1622) and finally completed some time shortly (SR First Folio 8 November 1623) beforeThe Spiritual Warfare (SR 4 December 1623). 

[A Phoenix]

Description of the Doctor Panurgus Engraving

In the Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum Frederic George Stephens provided an important and detailed description of the Doctor Panurgus engraving which I have thought best to largely reproduce below:

A REPRESENTATION OF QUACKERIES, SUCH AS THOSE WHICH WERE ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN PRACTISED AGAINST ROBERT DEVEREUX, THIRD EARL OF ESSEX, BY “DOCTOR PANURGUS” (Simon Forman?)

                                           “To this grave Doctor Millions doe resorte,

                                            Both from ye Cvntry, Citty & ye Covrt,

                                            Whence thovgh they com as thick as Raine can fall,

                                            Such is his skill as hee can Cvre them all,

                                            For by his Waters Drvgges, Conserves & Potions

                                            He pvrgeth fancies follies, Idle motions.”

Above is the title of this print, which, as the illustrative and explanatory inscriptions upon it do not positively refer to the Earl of Essex, is not assuredly connected with him, but may represent the interior of Dr. Forman’s laboratory at Lambeth, with the quack practices of that person upon a country patient, and a magical process, apart from a supposed enchantment of the effigy of the Earl of Essex in the presence and at the instigation of his wife Frances, born Howard, and lastly, by marriage Countess of Somerset. 

   As to the former subject, it is expressed by the figures of “Doct. Panurgus;” and a patient who is receiving from his hands a potion compounded from a bottle upon which is written “Wisdome” and “Vnderstanding.” The patient is seated upon a close stool, and under the influence of medicine voids whole animals, such as an ass, which a man milks, a sheep, birds, and a man. Beneath this group is written:

                                            “A Slender purge serues the rude Rusticall

                                            Few druggs expell his vicious humors all,

                                            By wisdomes force and understanding passe

                                            The Goose, foole, woodcock, Buzzard, Calfe, & Asse.

These verses cannot possibly refer to Sir Thomas Overbury, as was alleged.

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

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[A Phoenix]

The Description

The second subject is shown by means of the representation of a man like an effigy, which lies supine upon a table placed in the mouth of a furnace, and with its head subjected to the flames within: this figure, which bears no particular likeness to the Earl of Essex, is of the size of life and fully dressed, with a sword by its side, booted and spurred; it is the attitude of speaking, with the right hand extended. Below, fire burns in a chafing dish, “Ador Diuinus.” The furnace, which is of brick, is cracked in many parts, and pours forth smoke at its summit; upon it is written:-

                                             “Ofte hauing tride to purg the Gallants Braine

                                             I tooke them, Washt them: putt them in againe,

                                             But to no end; so Since I did desire

                                             To try Conclusions by the force of Fire,

                                             And heere behould what good Successe I had

                                             These Strange Chimaera-Crotchetts made him mad.”

   …Between the still and the effigy of the gallant, or rather the gallant himself, stands a lady whose feathers somewhat resemble those of the Countess of Essex. She carries a feather-fan in one hand, her handkerchief in the other, and holds a squirrel by a string. At the side of her figure is written, addressed to her:-

                                          “Once (Faire) I knew the tongues Phlebotomie

                                              Had powre to Cure your Sexes Maladie

                                              But now youre many humors boile so highe

                                          That you must in ye Gallants Fornace lye.”

Frederick George Stephens, Catalogue Of Prints And Drawings In The British Museum Political And Personal Satires Printed by Order Of The Trustees (London: Chiswick Press, 1870), I, pp. 44-48

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

PAPER 1 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/v82gTnhCkwI

PAPER 2 VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6VfAt0mUHrY

Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

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[A Phoenix]

Identity of the Figure

Some of the above is reproduced by Hind in Engravings in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries with some additional information and commentary. He dates the engraving and the style of the costume at about 1620. The engraving is extant in two later impressions, one with Peter Stent’s imprint which according to Schlueter probably sold between c. 1643 and c. 1667 and another one licensed in 1672 by Roger L’Estrange. The impression was purchased by the British Museum in 1854. Neither Frederick George Stephens, Keeper of the Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, after repeatedly stating that the figure in the middle of the engraving did not resemble the Earl of Somerset, Hind, nor Professor Schlueter, or any other modern scholar has ever tried to determine the true identity of the figure in the middle of the engraving. This curious and suspicious silence has the feel of being something akin to the white elephant in the room as the true identity of the figure in the middle of the Droeshout engraving is immediately obvious, even at just a passing casual glance. It is very obviously Francis Bacon, and such was his way, he has left us a series of clues and indicators to confirm it.

Arthur M. Hind, Engravings In The Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 1955), II, pp. 362-64; June Schlueter, ‘Droeshout’, Print Quarterly, 27 (2010), pp. 257-58 who unconvincingly suggests the engraving was possibly done by Martin Droeshout’s father Michael Droeshout

Paper 1: The Title Page and Droeshout Mask of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio Concealing its Secret Author Francis Bacon  https://www.academia.edu/104366783/The_Title_Page_and_Droeshout_Mask_of_the_1623_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Concealing_its_Secret_Author_Francis_Bacon

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Paper 2: To The Reader Prefixed to the Shakespeare First Folio Opposite the Droeshout Mask signed with the initials B. I. for BenJonson https://www.academia.edu/104366722/To_The_Reader_Prefixed_to_the_Shakespeare_First_Folio_Opposite_the_Droeshout_Mask_signed_with_the_initials_B_I_for_Ben_Jonson

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