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Collection Item: Shakespeare
Basic info
- Collection
- Fine Art
- Title
- Shakespeare
- Object name
- Figurine
- Object category
- Sculpture
- Creators
- Cheere, John (Sculptor)
- Scheemakers, Peter Gaspar (Sculptor)
- ()
- Description
- A bronzed plaster statuette, one of a series of nineteen featuring artists, philosophers and writers. This statuette is of William Shakespeare standing by a plinth. He has a small beard and wears Elizabethan clothing. He leans against an ornate plinth which has a pile of books on the top. The corners of the plinth are decorated with masks.
- Production date start
- 1740
- Period
- Georgian
Identification
- Object number
- YORAG : 2004.23
- Number of objects
- 1
- Classification code
- 2.45
- Classification scheme
- SHIC
- ID
- 20001872
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Plaster (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Whole height 49.2 cm
- Whole width 31.2 cm
- Whole depth 14.8 cm
- Base width 31.0 cm
- Base depth 14.5 cm
Production
- Creators
- Cheere, John (Sculptor)
- Scheemakers, Peter Gaspar (Sculptor)
- ()
- Location
- United Kingdom
- United Kingdom
- School/style
- British
