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- Title:
Literary Characters Assembled Around the Medallion of Shakespeare
- Date:
- 1776
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches (21 x 28.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen black ink, lower left: "a fellow of Maudlin"
Paul Mellon collector's mark
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1346
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- books | caricature | hands | heads | literary theme | medallion (ornament area) | men | portrait | satyr | sleeping
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11390
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