Jewellery/Accessories: SP0017

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Vaughton, P & Sons [ Copy by ]

Date

1908

Dimensions

Height: 2.5cm
Width: 1.8cm
Depth: 0.8cm

Other materials

Varnished silver

Inscription/signature

"WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE" (on front); "J&S" (on verso) marks: "V&S" / anchor / lion / date mark "i" in shield" (verso) ["P. Vaughton / after Dassier / with Reverse / and without Reverse / 2 small medals / AR" (accompanying note)]

Provenance

The M.H. Spielmann Collection; given to the Garrick Club by Lincoln Kirstein, 1983

Other number

Gift 906

Related works

See SP0016

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.17

Small pendant showing a bust of Shakespeare. Unlike SP0016 there is not a picture of Anne Hathaway's cottage at Shottery on the verso which is plain.