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Cameos: SP0023

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Other

Subject

Artist

Dimensions

Height: 5.9cm
Width: 4.5cm
Depth: 1cm

Other materials

Carved shell

Inscription/signature

"761" (inscr: on verso) ["Shell Cameo portrait / of Shakespeare / (carved)" (accompanying note)]

Provenance

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

Other number

Gift 906

Related works

See SP0023-SP0028

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.23

A bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to right, carved into a pink and orange shell.
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