Jewellery/Accessories: SP0011

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 3.1cm
Width: 1.7cm
Depth: 0.8cm

Other materials

Gilt metal

Inscription/signature

"He was / not for / an age / but / for / all time" (scrathed on verso) ["This head & bust are / cast from a Warwickshire halfpenny / to (illeg) (A.26) & gilt / (note inscription scratched on back)", "This head is obviously cut / from a "Warwick- / shire halfpenny / A.26 & gilt. Note / inscription on / back / Davis 1/6" (accompanying notes)]

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.11

A small bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left, said to have been cut from a Warwickshire half-penny.