IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 11178 accession number: C.117-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Black basalt. Oval with raised moulded edge, and bust portrait of William Shakespeare in profile to left, the name 'SHAKESPEARE' impressed into the ground below the truncation. On the reverse is a vertical, approximately oval depression behind the bust, and at the top, a curved slot. title: portrait medallion NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: A. V. Valentine-Richards Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11178 PEOPLE ------------------- Shakespeare, William TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1777 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1777 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood & Bentley maker: Hackwood, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.4 CITATIONS -------- A catalogue of cameos, intaglios, medals, busts, small statues, and bas-reliefs; with a general account of vases and other ornaments, after the antique, made by Wedgwood & Bentley, and sold at their rooms in Great Newport Street, London. Wedgwood, The Portrait Medallions Wedgwood in London, 225th Anniversary Exhibition 1759-1984 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_117_1933_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 920 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_C_117_1933_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 557 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/C_117_1933_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 920 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_C_117_1933_201505_jas244_dc2.jpg height: 279 pixels width: 250 pixels