Cameos: SP0027

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Mixed media

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 4.7cm
Width: 4cm
Depth: 1.4cm

Other materials

Carved shell mounted into a copper brooh with pin on verso

Inscription/signature

"Carnes" (? Scratched into verso) ["Shell cameo portrait / of Shakespeare / (carved)

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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.27

A bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left, carved into a pink and white shell, mounted into a golden metal brooch with pin..