(244) Shakespeare's portrait : a market of fakes and misidentifications!

 Shakespeare's portrait :  a market of fakes and misidentifications!

-----the strange asymmetries of the different hair length of the right and left head side as well as the non visible collar stiffening line of the upper right collar side
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Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence,
(1837

The year 2014  marks the centenary of the death of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, (1837 – 1914) a British lawyer and Member of Parliament. He was an early Anti-Stratfordian, best known for his advocacy of the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship,

In his Book "The Shakespeare Myth, 1912" (page 8-9)  he claimed that the Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare contained visual codes pointing to a secret authorship. He wrote

He did not mention the strange asymmetries of the different hair length   of the left and right head side (left) and wrote

 "there is no question – there can be no possible question – that in fact it is a cunningly drawn cryptographic picture, shewing(....)  a mask...!"    [ a double person ]

He did not mention the strange asymmetries of the different hair length of the right and left head side  as well as the non visible collar stiffening line of the upper right collar side  compared to the visible collar stiffening line on the reverse side left , both also 

indicating allegorically a different front and back side

 of a  different front and back man ....

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