• An alleged image of playwright William Shakespeare from a first edition of 'The Herball,' a 16th century book on plants, is seen at an office in London on Tuesday. The illustration is thought to show the first and only authentic portrait of Shakepseare, according to British botanist and historian Mark Griffiths. | REUTERS
    An alleged image of playwright William Shakespeare from a first edition of "The Herball," a 16th century book on plants, is seen at an office in London on Tuesday. The illustration is thought to show the first and only authentic portrait of Shakepseare, according to British botanist and historian Mark Griffiths. | REUTERS

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LONDON – 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.

The picture, of a young, bearded man wearing a Roman-style laurel crown and holding an ear of sweetcorn, was identified by botanist and historian Mark Griffiths and will be published in Country Life on Wednesday.

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