 The Droeshout portrait or Droeshout engraving is a portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by Martin Droeshout as the frontispiece for the title page of the First Folio collection of Shakespeare 's plays , published in 1623 . It is one of only two works of art definitively identifiable as a depiction of the poet ; the other is the statue erected as his funeral monument in Shakespeare 's home town of Stratford @-@ upon @-@ Avon . Both are posthumous . 
