Cameos: SP0029

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Other

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Date

c.1775-1850

Dimensions

Height: 2.1cm
Width: 1.1cm
Depth: 0.4cm

Other materials

Glass

Inscription/signature

["Black & White / cameo / of W. Sh.", "… onyx cameo / Bt. 12.4.'10 / Wright, Brighton / HN.E" (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.29

A bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left. The accomapnying note says that it was "Bt. 12. 4. '10"