An image of playwright William Shakespeare from a first edition of The Herball, a sixteenth century book on plants, is seen at an office in London, Britain, on May 19. The illustration is thought to show the first and only authentic portrait of Shakepseare according to British botanist and historian Mark Griffiths. Photo: Reuters/Toby Melville
A British magazine has published an image of a figure that it says is the first and only known demonstrably authentic portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime. And Shakespeare looks like a hipster.
The engraved picture of a young, bearded hipster, wearing a Roman-style laurel crown and holding an ear of sweetcorn, was identified by botanist and historian Mark Griffiths and was published in Country Life on May 20.
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