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Jewellery/Accessories: SP0001
Title
William Shakespeare
Technique
Bronze
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 7.2cm
Width: 4.5cm
Depth: 0.8cm
Width: 4.5cm
Depth: 0.8cm
Inscription/signature
"R G" (b.r.) ["Bronze. From / Lord Ronald Sutherland / Gower's great statue / at Stratford-on-avon / (a gift to me from Lord R.G. - who could not / remember who had made this little work for him" (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.1
A small bronze figure made after Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower's great statue in front of the theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. It was a gift from Lord Gower who could not remember who had made the little work for him.
Shown in relief the figure has quite, but not very, fine detailing.
Shown in relief the figure has quite, but not very, fine detailing.
