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Seals: SP0039

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Wax

Subject

Artist

Dimensions

Height: 2.2cm
Width: 2.4cm
Depth: 0.2cm

Other materials

Red wax seal on paper

Inscription/signature

"Mr Frank Lacy's / seal No.2 of the / two sent / me on 26 Jan '31" (verso of mounting card) ["Wax impressions of / Shakespeare Seals - belonging to Mr. Frank Lacy / of 130 Holbein House / Holbein Place / Sloane Square S.W.1 / April 1930

Provenance

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

Other number

Gift 906

Related works

See SP0037-SP0040

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.39

A red wax seal showing a bust of Shakespeare in profile looking left. The accompanying notes say that it belonged to the actor Frank Lacy who gave it to Lincoln Kirstein, 26th January, 1931.
 
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