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Title(s)
Shakespeare's tercentenary, 1864.
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Published/Created
Coventry : T. Stevens, [1864]
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Physical Description
1 silk picture : color ; 25 x 5 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NK9002.S8 S4 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Visual Materials
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Notes
A woven picture, machine-embroidered on silk. On white silk in red, green, black, and gray.
The words "Coventry" and "T. Stevens" are embroidered on the reverse.
Godden, G.A. Stevengraphs and other Victorian silk pictures, 651
Stevengraph bookmark featuring an image of William Shakespeare with quill and paper, based on the Shakespeare funerary monument at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The title appears above the portrait. Below: "Shakespeare: He was a man, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again" (modification of lines from Hamlet, act 1, scene 2). -
Subject Terms
Bookmarks -- Specimens. | Church of the Holy Trinity (Stratford-upon-Avon, England) | Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 -- Anniversaries, etc. | Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 -- Portraits. | Silk pictures -- Specimens.
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Form/Genre
Bookmarks. | Embroidery (visual works) | Stevengraphs. | Textiles.
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