Fakes, Forgeries & Facsimiles
is the new exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Among the more than 100 items on display are photographs masquerading as drawings and paintings, “perfected” copies of the Shakespeare First Folio, forged ownership inscriptions, faked bookplates, false dates and places of publication, and mythic Shakespeare relics. The rise and fall of the most notorious Shakespeare forgers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, William Henry Ireland and John Payne Collier, is illustrated in some detail.
Admission is free!
