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Sculpture: S0028
Title
William Shakespeare
Technique
Marble
Subject
Artist
Date
c.1884
Dimensions
Height: 69cm
Width: 39cm
Depth: 30cm
Width: 39cm
Depth: 30cm
Other materials
White marble; rectangular grey marble base 11 x 44.5 x 34.5
Inscription/signature
“Augto Passaglia Fece / Firenze” (on left shoulder); “ - o'erstep not the modesty of nature” (on front of grey marble base)
Provenance
Tommaso Salvini, by whom presented to the Garrick Club, 1884?
Other number
Gift 232
The donor Salvini paid his first visit to England in 1875, and opened with his Othello at Drury Lane on 1 April. He returned in 1876 and 1882, and made his farewell appearances at Covent Garden in 1884.
