borne out by the engravings. My old friend, the Rev. Charles Evans,
Rector of Solihull, who possesses the almost unrivalled Marsh
Collection of Engraved Portraits of Shakespeare, at my request
compared Cooper's engraving of the Croker portrait with those by
Dunkarton, Earlom, and Turner, of the Janssen: and he writes: "In
the Cooper the face is peaked, the beard more pointed, and the ruff
different in the points." After all, such differences may well be
the creation of the engravers. I would fain know where the Croker
portrait now is; and also that which belonged to the late Dr.
Turton, Bishop of Ely.

{39} A Study of Shakespeare's Portraits. 1876, p. 23.

{45} This is exactly as it stands upon the existing gravestone, not
as it is reproduced by the writer in the Atlantic Monthly: the like
as to the two lines of the epitaph in No. 6. The manuscript of
Dowdall, referred to on p. 31 ante, is unfortunately modernized in
Traditionary Anecdotes. He has, indeed 'friend,' and 'these,' as in
the pamphlet version, but also 'digg,' and 'inclosed.' Dowdall,
however, was a very inaccurate copyist. See fac-simile in Mr. J. O.
Halliwell's Folio Shakespeare, vol. i, inserted between pp. 78 and
79. The Dowdall manuscript does not give the epitaph in capitals,
except the initials.