Cameos: SP0034

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Metalwork

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 3.4cm
Width: 3.5cm
Depth: 0.5cm

Other materials

Varnished lead

Inscription/signature

["(Brookes & Adams / Birmingham / Lead stamping / (through Vaughton)" (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 Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.36

A bust of Shakespeare in profile looking right, moulded into a piece of lead.