LONDON, BANKSIDE

Probably the best known image of William Shakespeare, the engraving was made by Martin Droeshout for the cover of the commemorative collection of Shakespeare's works or alleged works depending on your neurosis. Shakespeare died in 1616 when Droeshout was about fifteen. Therefore did he source from an earlier image or did he compile the work from descriptions given by John Heminges and Henry Condell who were behind the creation of the folio. The First Folio was published in 1623.
Heminges and Condell were buried in the medieval churchyard of St Mary Aldermanbury which was burnt down in the Great Fire and replaced by a Wren design. Wren's church was exported, after WW2, and rebuilt in Missouri, USA, as a memorial to Churchill who had made a speech in 1946 at Westminster College, Fulton. A small garden to the west of the Guildhall now marks the site.