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Original Vintage 1915 Theatre Poster for The YWCA Entitled The Play s The Thing
By Lucille Patterson March
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster depicting a scene from a play on stage (possibly Shakespeare’s Hamlet), the
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1910s American Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Paper

City of Carlisle (UK) Walnut Carved Plaque “Be Just and Fear Not"
Located in San Francisco, CA
stylized roses with draped flags on the sides all above a quote from Shakespeare's Henry VIII "Be Just and
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Late 19th Century English Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Walnut

19th Century cast iron inkwell in the form of Sir John Fallstaff
Located in London, GB
lay and Thus I brandish my blade,’ from Shakespeare’s play Henry IV Part 1.
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1820s English George III Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Bronze

Partridge Shooting
By Samuel John Egbert Jones
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
represented in a range of public collections, including the National Trust, the Royal Shakespeare Company and
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18th Century Old Masters Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil

R. Josey After P. Macquoid - 1885 Mezzotint, Othello and Desdemona
Located in Corsham, GB
characters from Shakespeare's 'Othello', reimagined as canines. Inscribed to the lower edge 'London
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19th Century Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Mezzotint

Figures in the Woods
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Shakespeare. It is difficult to think of a single painter who so successfully captured Shakespeare on canvas
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19th Century Impressionist Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Romeo and Juliet" Opera, Ch. Gounod, Paris, 1876
By Francois-Louis Gounod
Located in Sofia, BG
libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was first
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1870s French Classical Roman Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Paper

The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere sic in 8 Leatherbound Volumes
Located in San Francisco, CA
A beautiful 8 volume set of Shakespeare's works bound in full crimson leather with gilt-tooled
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Mid-19th Century English Shakespeare Antique

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Leather, Paper

Oil Painting Pair by H.T Dennis "Somerset Labourers"
Located in Mere, GB
portraits and figurative subjects in oil and watercolour, especially shakespeare. both watercolour in
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Mid-19th Century Shakespeare Antique

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Oil

Venus and the Cherubs
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Artists Professional League Work: Shakespeare Shrine, Stratford-on-Avon, England.
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Early 20th Century Academic Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil

Large English Georgian Neoclassical Theatrical Pearlware Figure of Ophelia
Located in Downingtown, PA
figure differently colored and unattributed at present. Ophelia is the tragic herione of Shakespeare
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Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Shakespeare Antique

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Pearlware, Pottery

Early 18thc English Carved Oak Joint Stool with Pegged Construction
Located in Savannah, GA
. Shakespeare used joint stool as slang expression for a dull person.
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1720s English George I Shakespeare Antique

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Oak

Scottish 19th Century Polished Cast Iron Fireplace Insert
Located in Edinburgh, GB
oval mask depicting Shakespeare. this in turn is flanked by a set of cast panels showing folate urns, a
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1880s Scottish Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Iron

Copy of Guido Reni s Lucretia, Painting Oil on Canvas 17th Century
By Guido Reni
Located in Milan, IT
Tito Livio to Seneca, from Ovid to Boccaccio and Shakespeare: the Roman community found in the extreme
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17th Century Other Art Style Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil

Theatrical Scene - Lithograph by Eugène Delacroix - 1843
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Roma, IT
, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German
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1840s Romantic Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Lithograph

Hamlett Skull on Stand – Memento Mori and Vanitas
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
is fleeting and earthly glory is temporary. Inspired by the universe of William Shakespeare, it
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17th Century English Gothic Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Resin, Wood

Pendant of a Gem Set Swallow Holding a Heart
Located in Stamford, CT
In 18 Kt gold set with a ruby and a sapphire this pendant is reminiscent of Shakespeare's poem
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1880s British Late Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Ruby, Sapphire, 18k Gold

Signed Docuement by Leos Janacek - 1903
Located in Roma, IT
very much, also the “Shakespeare [sic.] song” (…). Will you buy [sic.] for me Arnold Bax: Seven Songs
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Early 1900s Modern Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Paper, Ink

Autograph Letter by Lauritz Melchior - 1912
Located in Roma, IT
very much, also the “Shakespeare [sic.] song” (…). Will you buy [sic.] for me Arnold Bax: Seven Songs
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1910s Modern Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Paper, Ink

Attrib. John Massey Wright OWS (1777-1866) - 19thC Watercolour, Titus Andronicus
Located in Corsham, GB
watercolourist, John Massey Wright. The painting shows a scene from Shakespeare's first Tragedy, Titus Andronicus
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Mid-19th Century Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Watercolor

Two Gundogs flushing Pheasants in a meadow, oil painting on canvas, framed
By Robert Cleminson
Located in ludlow, GB
Royal Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the
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19th Century Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil

Portrait of George Peele (c.1557-c.1596), Very early Elizabethan panel
Located in London, GB
most prominent figures among those of Shakespeare's "predecessors" and earlier contemporaries. He is
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16th Century Old Masters Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Stained Glass Sparkle Screen in Neo-Gothic Style from the 19th Century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
and animals in a singular and jovial way, such as a frog, a fish or a bird. A portrait of Shakespeare
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19th Century English Gothic Revival Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Stained Glass, Wood

"The Divers, " Rare Signed Lithographic Print by Charles Haslewood Shannon
By Charles Haslewood Shannon
Located in Philadelphia, PA
published the complete works of Shakespeare and featured illustrations and design that epitomized the Arts
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1890s British Belle Époque Shakespeare Antique

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Paper

Authors of the United States original engraving 1866
By Thomas Hicks
Located in Paonia, CO
by the statues of Shakespeare, Dante and Chaucer. This is a great piece engraved by one of the best
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1860s Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Engraving

Scandinavian Modernist: Lighthouse at Helsingor. Exhibited at Venice Biennale
By William Lonnberg
Located in Norwich, GB
(that's Shakespeare's Elsingore) in an artist's colony with Niels-Peder Rydeng, a patron of the arts
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1920s Expressionist Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Oil

ROBERT CLEMINSON (1864-1903) LARGE SIGNED OIL HIGHLAND PONY SPANIEL LANDSCAPE
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society
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Late 19th Century Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Monarch of the Glen, Huge Victorian Oil Painting Stag in the Highlands
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society of British Artists
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Late 19th Century Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Two Antique Huntley and Palmers Advertising Tin Biscuit Box Book Buhl Tin
By Huntley Palmers
Located in Shreveport, LA
, Gulliver's Travels, Self Help, and Shakespeare. Each bottom is incised with maker mark; “Huntley & Palmers
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Early 20th Century British British Colonial Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Metal

Antique Amethyst, Diamond and Glass Suffragette Pendant, circa 1913
By Goldsmiths Silversmiths Co. Ltd.
Located in London, GB
Shakespeare, Ophelia said, "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember." It suggests
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1910s British Edwardian Shakespeare Antique

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Amethyst, Diamond, Pearl, Gold, Platinum

Near Stratford on Avon - 19th Century English Landscape Oil Painting
By Arthur Bevan Collier
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
Warwickshire, the home county of William Shakespeare. Dimensions: (framed) 74cm x 54cm (29” x 21¼”) Dimensions
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Late 19th Century Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil

Near Stratford on Avon - 19th Century English Landscape Oil Painting
By Arthur Bevan Collier
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
Warwickshire, the home county of William Shakespeare. Dimensions: (framed) 74cm x 54cm (29” x 21¼”) Dimensions
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Late 19th Century Realist Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil

ROBERT CLEMINSON (1864-1903) LARGE SIGNED OIL - HIGHLAND PONY DOGS LANDSCAPE
By Robert Cleminson
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Academy, at Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London. He exhibited further works at the Society
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil

Antique Art Book Golden Book of Famous Women, English, Eleanor F Brickdale, 1919
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
this title, numerous literary sources are compiled with texts from Dickens, Faust and Shakespeare et al
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Early 20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Shakespeare Antique

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Paper

19th Century Gasolier by F. C. Osler
By F. C. Osler
Located in New Orleans, LA
Osler was established by Thomas Osler in 1807, when he joined a Mr. Shakespeare's glasshouse at Hockley
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19th Century English Other Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Brass

17th Century Belgian Tapestry
Located in New Orleans, LA
Shakespeare's Coriolanus, the Roman hero was exiled from Rome and then allied himself with the Volsci
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17th Century Belgian Classical Roman Shakespeare Antique

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Fabric, Thread

British Sailor s Woolwork (Woolie) of British Soldier and a Sailor with Flags
Located in Downingtown, PA
Country” appear in William Shakespeare’s play Henry IV and are spoken by the title character. It refers to
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Late 19th Century English Folk Art Shakespeare Antique

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Wool

Othello recounting his Adventures to Desdemona - Large 19th Century Oil Painting
By Francis Sydney Muschamp
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
William Shakespeare as seen here in his depiction of one of the most famous scenes from ‘Othello
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1890s Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Oil

The Eavesdropper by British Artist Alfred Elmore RA, Oil on Canvas, Signed
Located in Stockholm, SE
anti-Catholic in character. Other paintings set episodes from Shakespeare or the history of the French
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1870s Academic Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On the Scent Over the Bridge, oil on canvas, pair
By Samuel John Egbert Jones
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Museums and collections including the British Postal Museum, the National Trust, the Royal Shakespeare
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19th Century Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Watercolor Study of a Butterfly Mid 19th Century French School
Located in SANTA FE, NM
burned in Cupid's hand that is not holding the bow. Wantonness, especially in Shakespeare. In Yeats, the
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Mid-19th Century Realist Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Ophelia by Thomas Francis Dicksee
Located in New Orleans, LA
from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Through her melancholic, sorrowful expression and demure pose, the
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19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tiger
By Eugène Delacroix
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
movement. A fine lithographer, Delacroix illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish
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Late 19th Century Barbizon School Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Etching

French early 20th Century oil painting of a summer sprite by Gaston Bussiere
By Gaston Bussiere
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
writings of William Shakespeare and Richard Wagner. His proficiency as an illustrator gained him widespread
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Early 20th Century Symbolist Shakespeare Antique

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Canvas, Oil

William Hatherell, The Balcony Embrace, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
works included 22 watercolours for Hodder's edition of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as well as
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Early 20th Century Academic Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Liber Veritatis
By (after) Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has an example of this
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Early 19th Century Baroque Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Engraving, Mezzotint

Portrait of a Young Gentleman and Pet Dog c.1680, Antique oil on Canvas Painting
By (Circle of) Mary Beale
Located in London, GB
to build the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre - and as Mayor on Shakespeare's Birthday, 23 April 1879 had
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17th Century Old Masters Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Viennese Imperial Porcelain Collecting Cup Troilus Cressida , Sorgenthal 1802
By Viennese Imperial Porcelain Manufactory
Located in Vienna, AT
cylindrical white cup is decorated with a scenic motif in polychrome after a play by William Shakespeare
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Early 1800s Austrian Other Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Porcelain

Petitioning the Young King
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
Museum, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Sydney Art Gallery in Australia
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1870s Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

The St. Bartholomew s Day Massacre - 19th Century History Painting from 1877
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
pictures taken from the works of William Shakespeare. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society
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1870s Victorian Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Watercolor

Life Size Bronze Sculpture by Julius Emil Epple C.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
six more than life-size herms of Wagner, Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Mozart, and Beethoven for the
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Early 20th Century Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Bronze

Life Size Bronze Sculpture by Julius Emil Epple C.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
six more than life-size herms of Wagner, Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Mozart, and Beethoven for the
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Early 20th Century Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Bronze

Authentic Oil Painting “The Convalescent” by Ferdinand Piloty II
Located in Shippensburg, PA
the Royal Shakespeare Company and his dramatic scene of Capuchin Sermon in the Porticus Octaviae in
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19th Century German Romantic Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Paint

"Benjamin Franklin" Bronze Sculpture After Jean-Jules Salmson, circa 1870-1890
By Jean-Jules Salmson, Vauvray Frères
Located in Shippensburg, PA
, including Henry IV, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Milton, Shakespeare, Charles the 1st, Elisabeth, Marie Stuart
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Late 19th Century European Romantic Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Bronze

19th Century French Gothic Revival Billiard Table
Located in New Orleans, LA
, most towns could boast ownership of at least one public billiards table. Even Shakespeare must have
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19th Century French Gothic Revival Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Slate

Jessica and Lorenzo
By George Loring Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
had a love for literary themes, and in his title for this piece, the artist alludes to Shakespeare
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19th Century Academic Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

Beauty and the Beast by Charles Lamb, circa 1890
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
adapting them for children such as Tales from Shakespeare and his version of Odyssey called Adventures of
Category

1890s Shakespeare Antique

Materials

Paper

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