"Ye Globe, as to be seen before ye Fire in ye year 1615, when this
place was burnt down. This old building," &c.
Here follows a long interesting description. It is an exterior view; size
of drawing 71/4 wide x 9-7/8 high, "W. H. 1640."
The fourth shows the stage, on which are two actors: this drawing, 7-7/8 x
61/2, was done by J. Eyre, 1629, and on which he gives a curious description
of his accompanying Prince Charles, &c.; at this time he belonged to the
Court, as he also accompanied that prince to Spain.
The fifth, done by the same hand in a _most masterly manner_, pen and ink
portrait of Shakspeare, copied, as he writes, from a portrait belonging to
the Earl of Essex, with interesting manuscript notice.
The sixth, done also by J. Eyre:
"Ye portraiture of one Master Ben Jonson, as on ye walls of Master Will
Shakspeare's rooms in Clinke Streete, Southwarke."--J. E. 1643.
The first three, in justice to Hollar, independent of the admirers of the
immortal bard and lovers of antiquities, should be engraved as "Facsimiles
of the Drawings." This shall be done on my receiving the names of sixty
subscribers, the amount of subscription one guinea, for which each
subscriber will receive three engravings, to be paid for when delivered.