Coins/Medallions: SP0014

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 3.8cm
Width: 3.3cm
Depth: 0.5cm

Other materials

Silver

Inscription/signature

"H I / 16.8.11" (stained remains of inscr: on verso) ["Silver. Head of Shakespeare / to left oval"(accompanying note)]

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.14

Shows a bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left. He has a Van Dyke moustache and beard and the crown of his head is completely bald but with tumbles of curls around the nape. The scalloped border has been produced seperately and soldered to the portrait medal