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Miscellaneous: SP0010
Title
William Shakespeare
Technique
Other
Subject
Artist
Dimensions
Height: 3.9cm
Width: 2.8cm
Depth: 0.3cm
Width: 2.8cm
Depth: 0.3cm
Other materials
Carved ivory
Inscription/signature
"Y" (inscr: pen and black ink verso) ["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
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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.10
A rough-cut ivory bust of Shakespeare in three-quarter profile looking to left. He has a Van Dyke moustache and beard.
