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Cameos: SP0032
Title
William Shakespeare
Technique
Intaglio
Subject
Artist
Date
c.1850-99
Dimensions
Height: 2cm
Width: 1.5cm
Depth: 0.5cm
Width: 1.5cm
Depth: 0.5cm
Other materials
White Calcedony Intaglio
Inscription/signature
["White cameo / (incised)" (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.32
A microscopic bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to right, carved into a polished white gemstone.
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