Jewellery/Accessories: SP0019

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 2.9cm
Width: 2.9cm
Depth: 1cm

Other materials

Silver metal with enamel, glass and pin on verso

Inscription/signature

"1912 / Vaughton / V.E." (inscr: pen and black ink on verso) ["Vaughton's / coloured brooch / glass & china / (rubbish)" (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.19

A glazed enamel and metal brooch showing a coloured bust of Shakespeare.