Staffordshire Ware Plate - front
This Staffordshire-ware plate is decorated with a print based on the Chandos Portrait, surrounded by six views showing Shakespeare's Birthplace; Anne Hathaway's Cottage; a view of the River Avon looking ...
Statue of Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey, London
Sculpted c. 1741 by Peter Scheemakers (1691-1781) from a design by William Kent (1684-1748)
This statue is one of the most widely reproduced likenesses of Shakespeare, copied for publications, souvenirs ...
Statue of Shakespeare on the Town Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon
Sculpted c. 1769, by John Cheere (d. 1787)
This statue was commissioned by the actor David Garrick to adorn the front of Stratford-upon-Avon's Town Hall, the re-building of which was completed in 1769 ...
Subscription Medal
This medal was presented to subscribers to an illustrated edition of Shakespeare's plays published under the direction of John and Josiah Boydell. This was associated with an exhibition organised by the ...
Subscription Medal
This medal was presented to subscribers to an illustrated edition of Shakespeare's plays published under the direction of John and Josiah Boydell. This was associated with an exhibition organised by the ...
Tea Towel
This souvenir tea towel is decorated with a copy of the frontispiece from the 1623 First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works, featuring Martin Droeshout's portrait engraving.
Made c. 1990
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Tercentenary Favour
A silk favour, or badge, made for celebrations in 1864 marking the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, with a picture of the poet modelled on the Chandos Portrait.
Made c. 1864
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Tercentenary Favour
A silk badge made for the celebrations in 1864 which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and featuring a picture of the poet modelled on the Chandos Portrait.
Made c. 1864
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Tercentenary Favour
A silk badge made for the celebrations in 1864 which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and featuring a picture of the poet modelled on the Chandos Portrait.
One of three ...
Tercentenary Favour
A silk badge made for the celebrations in 1864 which marked the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and featuring a picture of the poet modelled on the Chandos Portrait.
One of three ...
Tercentenary Medal
A bronze medal struck for the Tercentenary by Pinches of London.
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth, an event marked by festivals in London ...
Tercentenary Medal
A bronze medal struck for the Tercentenary, 1864 by Pinches of London.
The quotation "Each change of many coloured life he drew, exhausted worlds and then imagined new" is from Samuel Johnson's Prologue ...
Tercentenary Medal
A bronze medal commemorating the three-hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth. Struck by Hunt and Roskell from a design by John Bell and engraved by L.C. Wyon.
This side shows Shakespeare's ...
Tercentenary Medal
This white metal medal commemorates the three hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth. Struck c. 1864 by Ottley of Birmingham.
The portrait of Shakespeare is closely based on the Chesterfield ...
Tercentenary Medal
This white metal medal commemorates the three hundredth anniversary in 1864 of Shakespeare's birth. Struck c. 1864 by Ottley of Birmingham.
Shown on the medal's reverse is Shakespeare's Birthplace, ...
Tercentenary Medal
One of a pair of commemorative medals struck in 1916, for the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre for the Tercentenary. Designed by Dorothy Dick
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth ...
Tercentenary Medal
One of a pair of commemorative medals struck in 1916, for the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre for the Tercentenary. Designed by Dorothy Dick
This bronze medal commemorates the three-hundredth ...
The Chesterfield portrait of William Shakespeare
This portrait, once owned by the Earl of Chesterfield, is perhaps the most Baroque of all interpretations of the poet, with its flamboyant and expressive gesture.
Shakespeare's head is clearly modelled ...