Ceramics: M0198

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Porcelain

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Bristol (Richard Champion’s Factory)

Date

c.1774

Dimensions

height: 20cm
width: 11cm
depth: 6.5cm

Provenance

Purchased from Wooley&Wallace in 2012.

This was inspired by the memorial to William Shakespeare at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. It was executed by Peter Scheemakers after a design by William Kent and erected in 1740 by the 3rd Earl of Burlington (Richard Boyle), Dr Richard Mead, Alexander Pope and Tom Martin. A similar figure was made at Derby.