Cameos: SP0026

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Other

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 4.9cm
Width: 3.9cm
Depth: 0.9cm

Other materials

Carved shell

Inscription/signature

"Serafim" (etched into verso); "VM" (inscr: pen and black ink on verso) ["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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.26

A bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left, carved into a pink and white shell.