Jewellery/Accessories: SP0008

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 6.2cm
Width: 2cm
Depth: 1.5cm

Other materials

Brass tobaco tamper

Inscription/signature

"21" (stamped on verso) ["? A stamp-metal" (accompanying note)]

Provenance

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

Other number

Gift 906

Related works

See SP0007

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.8

A brass stamp showing a bust of Shakespeare looking to right. The verso is smooth; the bust and tamper have been cast seperately.