IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71267 accession number: C.107-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Biscuit porcelain figure of William Shakespeare, slip-cast with applied details. The underside has a bevelled circular ventilation hole in the centre. The shallow rectangular base has cut corners, and vertically ribbed sides. The poet stands on the viewer's right with his right leg crossed over his left, leaning on his right elbow on a pile of three books resting on top of a three-sided pedestal. He is bearded, and wears a close-fitting buttoned jacket, breeches, a cloak and shoes with ties on top. The pedestal is decorated on the angles with heads of Henry V, Richard III, and Queen Elizabeth with volutes below. Hanging down from below the pile of books is a scroll inscribed in black with a quotation from one of Prospero's speeches from the Tempest, Act IV, Scene I: "The cloud capped towers the gorgeous palaces. The solemn temples the great globe itself yea all which it inherits Shall dissolve; and like the baseless fabric of a vision Leave not a wrack behind" object type: Biscuit porcelain figure of William Shakespeare after the monument in Westminster Abbey title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Uncertain before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Mrs W.D. Dickson creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71267 PEOPLE ------------------- Shakespeare, William Henry V Richard III Elizabeth I SUBJECTS ------------------- book scroll book scroll TECHNIQUES ---------- biscuit porcelain, slip-cast, with applied details slip-casting CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures The Old Derby China Factory Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain from Contemporary Sources Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 English Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century The Man at Hyde Park Corner, Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787 British Porcelain The Neo-classical style and Derby Biscuit figures 1771-1800 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_107_1932_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_107_1932_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_107_1932_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_107_1932_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_107_1932_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_107_1932_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_107_1932_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_107_1932_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels