print
- Museum number
- 1874,0808.2022
- Title
- Object: William Shakespeare
- Description
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Portrait, bust slightly to right, eyes to front, wearing a doublet decorated with darts and plain collar, within an oval on a plinth, a crest at the base. 1719
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1719
- Dimensions
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Height: 362 millimetres
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Width: 243 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Copied from the so-called 'Chandos portrait' attributed to John Taylor, now in the NPG, which was first recorded when it passed from the collection of Robert Keck to his cousin, Francis, on the former's death in 1719. For a related drawing in BM P&D, see Gg,1.429.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0808.2022
