Shakespeare, William. (1564–1616) Portrait after the original by DroeshoutEngraved portrait of the playwright after the original done by Droeshout. This example produced ca. 1810, on thin laid paper. Sheet size: 15" x 9 3 4". Matted, 18" x 14". The Droeshout Portrait is depicted on the frontispiece of all Four Folios and is printed alongside, here rendered smaller and above, a poem To The Reader by Shakespeares friend Ben Jonson in which he praises the accuracy of the engravings likeness stating that the engraver has