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品名（中）	莎士比亚
品名（英）	William Shakespeare
入馆年号	1917年，17.3.756-2479
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Samuel Ireland【1700 至 1800】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1795
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	Plate: 9 1/4 × 6 11/16 英寸 (23.5 × 17 厘米) 页: 9 7/16 × 6 11/16 英寸 (24 × 17 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅蚀刻版画再现了莎士比亚的自画像素描，实际上是由威廉·亨利·爱尔兰在 1790 年代著名的伪造丑闻中创作的。爱尔兰伪造了一批信件、文件和戏剧草稿，旨在揭示吟游诗人的生活和信仰，并声称在一个旧行李箱里发现了它们。在儿子的收留下，塞缪尔·爱尔兰出版了《在威廉·莎士比亚的手印下印刷的杂项文件和法律文书》（1796 年），以现在的图像为例。据说它入了一封信中，在那里被描述为"whysycalle conceyte"。莎士比亚权威埃德蒙·马龙（Edmond Malone）很快揭穿了爱尔兰的说法，并将这幅肖像描述为"最真正的异想天开，是我们诗人自己用笔画的一幅悲惨的图画，来自马丁·德罗舒特（Martin Droeshout）在他死后七年雕刻的他版画"（后者见17.3.756-1108）。
介绍（英）	This etching reproduces a supposed self-portrait sketch by Shakespeare actually created by William Henry Ireland during a famous forgery scandal of the 1790s. Ireland faked a cache of letters, documents, and drafts of plays calculated to shed light on the Bard's life and beliefs, and claimed to have found them in an old trunk. Taken in by his son, Samuel Ireland published "Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments Printed Under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare" (1796), using the present image as an illustration. It was said to have been inserted in a letter and there described as a "whysycalle conceyte." The Shakespeare authority Edmond Malone soon debunked Ireland's claims and described the portrait as "most truly whimsical, being a miserable drawing of our poet done by himself with a pen, from Martin Droeshout's print of him engraved seven years after his death" (see 17.3.756-1108 for the latter).