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The only surviving image that may depict Anne Hathaway (1555/56 - 6 August 1623), the wife of William Shakespeare, is a portrait line-drawing made by Sir Nathaniel Curzon in 1708, referred to as "Shakespear's Consort". It was probably traced from a lost Elizabethan original. The drawing is currently located in the Colgate University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, Hamilton, NY.〔Special Collections and University Archives, Colgate University Libraries; Shakespeare, William. ''Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, histories, and tragedies. Published according to the true original copies. The third impression. And unto this impression is added seven playes, never before printed in folio.''London, Printed for P.C., 1663.〕 The image of the young woman with a 16th-century cap and ruff is contained on the verso of the original title page in the Colgate collection's copy of the Third Folio (1663) of Shakespeare's works. Beneath it is inscribed "Delin N.C. 1708". "Delin" is an abbreviation of the Latin "delineavit", meaning "drawn by". == Sir Nathaniel Curzon== This edition originally belonged to Sir Nathaniel Curzon, Baronet, (1636-1719), who married Sarah, daughter of William Penn of Buckinghamshire.〔Otness, Harold M., ''The Shakespeare Folio Handbook and Census'', Greenwood Press, 1990, p.46.〕 The work was handed down through the family to Curzon's great grandson, the Honourable Robert Curzon (1774-1863). His name is hand-printed in black ink on the top left of the initial flyleaf, "R. Curzon. 1850", and he wrote as marginalia on the second flyleaf: :The manuscript verses on the next page :refer to a drawing of Anne Hathaway which :had been made on the back of the blank 1st :title ----, by my great grandfather Sir Nathaniel :Curzon of Keddlestone. This drawing was :almost obliterated, and the remains of it are :concealed by mounting the page which was :loose, in the old family copy of this book = = = :The printed verses are most rare, if not unique :in this form, I have never met with another :specimen, they were intended for the very :rare edition of 1663 printed without the :seven additional plays for Philip Chetwinde :This copy seems to be Chetwinde's edition as :it has the title page, as well as the common :one, and it has the 7 additional plays :added at the end with a separate pagination 〔 Tannenbaum, S. A. "Editorial", ''The Shakespeare Association Bulletin.'' (17:2) Spring 1942. p.112〕 As interesting is Curzon’s first attempt at penciling an explanatory note on the first blank recto, presumably made prior to the existing description above. Apparently, he started too far down the page and his script was too large for the remaining area since he ran out of space before finishing it. He erased it and started anew on the second flyleaf as reproduced above. However, a faint impression remains and George M. Friend, writing in 1972, examined the Folio first-hand and made out the following, which interestingly recounts that the image was “faintly traced.” 〔 Friend, George M. “A Possible Portrait of Anne Hathaway,” ''Philobiblon'' (9) Spring 1972. p. 46. 〕 :The manuscript verses on the :first leaf refer to a drawing :which was very faintly traced :on the title, which together :with the first three leaves was :loose, and were all mounted :to preserve them from further :damage. The first title of :all is of very fain clarity () :as is also the leaf of verses :and only occurs in the 1st…(text ) The "Philip Chetwinde" mentioned was the publisher of the Third Folio.〔 Halliday, F. E., ''A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964'', Baltimore, Penguin, 1964, p. 98.〕 As Curzon notes, the 1664 version of his edition contained seven extra plays, listed on an added title page, not included in earlier editions. The verses referred to are found on the third flyleaf beneath Ben Jonson's verse referencing Martin Droeshout's famous portrait engraving of Shakespeare on the facing page.〔 Tannenbaum (1942). 〕 Inscribed in ink by Sir Nathaniel, followed by his initials and the year 1708, they are: :This figure, that thou there seest put ::It was for Shakespear's Consort cut :Wherein the Graver had a strife ::With Nature to outdo the Life :O had he Her Complexion shewn ::As plain as He's the outline Drawn :The plate, believe me, woud surpass ::All that was ever made in brass ::N.C. 1708 These lines are a pastiche of Jonson's poem about the Droeshout portrait, replicating several of its lines verbatim.〔Schoenbaum, Samuel, ''William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life'', 1977, Oxford University Press, p. 92〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Portrait of Anne Hathaway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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