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Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Other

Subject

Artist

Dimensions

Height: 3cm
Width: 2cm
Depth: 0.7cm

Other materials

Carved ivory

Inscription/signature

[Two roughly cut / ivory 'portraits' of / W. Sh" (accompanying note to SP0009 and SP0010)]

Provenance

The M.H. Spielmann Collection; given to the Garrick Club by Lincoln Kirstein, 1983

Other number

Gift 906

Related works

See SP0010

Literature

Ashton (with the help of Gertrud Seidmann), "The M H Spielmann Collection of Shakespeare Portraits." c.1982. Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.9

A rough-cut ivory bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to right. The verso has an attachment with two holes which would enable it to be used as a pendant.
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