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Yes. “William Shakespeare” is public domain and released under CC0, so it is free to download and reuse for any purpose, including commercially, with no permission needed.

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Yes. As a CC0 public-domain work it can be used commercially, modified and redistributed with no fee and no attribution required.

“William Shakespeare” by Martin Droeshout is a public-domain (CC0) artwork, free to view, download and reuse for any purpose. It is catalogued from the open collection of National Gallery of Art (Washington).

William Shakespeare

Martin Droeshout

Title	William Shakespeare
Artist	Martin Droeshout
Medium	engraving
Classification	Print
Holding institution	National Gallery of Art (Washington)
Credit line	Rosenwald Collection
Rights	Public domain (CC0)

About this artwork

“William Shakespeare” is a work by Martin Droeshout. It is executed in engraving and classified as print. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).

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