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SP0009
Miscellaneous: SP0009
Title
William Shakespeare
Technique
Other
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 3cm
Width: 2cm
Depth: 0.7cm
Width: 2cm
Depth: 0.7cm
Other materials
Carved ivory
Inscription/signature
[Two roughly cut / ivory 'portraits' of / W. Sh" (accompanying note to SP0009 and SP0010)]
Provenance
The M.H. Spielmann Collection; given to the Garrick Club by Lincoln Kirstein, 1983
Other number
Gift 906
Related works
See SP0010
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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.9
A rough-cut ivory bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to right. The verso has an attachment with two holes which would enable it to be used as a pendant.
