Cameos: SP0021

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Pottery

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 5.3cm
Width: 4.2cm
Depth: 0.9cm

Other materials

Wedgwood type

Inscription/signature

["Wedgewood / portrait of Shakespeare / not good)" (accompanying note)]

Provenance

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

Other number

Gift 906

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.21

A plain bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left on a fawn background. The portrait is somewhat indistinct.