| Shakespear's Consort | |
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| Artist | Nathaniel Curzon (based on unknown original) |
| Year | 1708 |
| Type | pencil |
| Location | Colgate University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, Hamilton, New York |
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.[1]
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".
- ^ 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.