Cameos: SP0024

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Other

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 5cm
Width: 4cm
Depth: 0.9cm

Other materials

Carved shell

Inscription/signature

["Shell Cameo portrait / of Shakespeare / (carved)" (accompanying note)]

Provenance

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

Other number

Gift 906

Related works

See SP0023-SP0028

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.24

A bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to right, carved into a brown and amber shell.