Date:1790 - 1816 (c.)
Description:A bas-relief plaster model showing Shakespeare asleep under a crab-apple tree at Bidford-on-Avon. This illustrates a tale, originating in the eighteenth century, of Shakespeare engaging, or attempting to engage, in a drinking contest. He is supposed to have fallen asleep, either having found that his prospective competitors had gone to a nearby village or due to excessive drinking. Made in the eighteenth-century, by Edward Grubb (1740-1816) Label - 'Shakespeare Asleep under the Crab Tree - This model was designed by Mr Edw[ard] Grubb of Stratford-upon-Avon, Sculptor, and was given by him to the late Mr Robert Bell Wheler, whose ~ sister, Miss Anne Wheler, gave it to Mr William Oakes Hunt, who, with her concurrence, presented it to the Town of Stratford-upon-Avon, to be ~ preserved in Shakespeare's House.. 15 July 1861'. Identity number SBT 1861-4
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A bas-relief plaster model showing Shakespeare asleep under a crab-apple tree at Bidford-on-Avon. This ...
Wooden box containing the plaster model of 'Shakespeare Asleep under the Crab Tree'. A bas-relief ...
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Image courtesy of: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust - Museum
Donor ref:SBT 1861-4 (16/9989)
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