Jewellery/Accessories: SP0013

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Burroughs & Adams

Dimensions

Height: 1.1cm
Width: 1.1cm
Depth: 0.3cm

Other materials

Varnished white metal

Inscription/signature

["Shakespeare "shell" / Burroughs & Adams / Birmingham / AR", "Bororss (?) & / Adams / Moore (crossed out), B'ham / "Shell"/ AR / H/-" (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.13

Called a "shell", possibly from a button or cuff-link, it shows a bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left.