Cameos: SP0031

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Intaglio

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Date

c.1850

Dimensions

Height: 1.7cm
Width: 1.4cm
Depth: 0.6cm

Other materials

Glass paste intaglio

Inscription/signature

"113X" (engr: on verso) ["Microscopic head / in glass - to r." (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.34

A microscopic bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to right, carved into transparent crystal cut glass.