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English: Shakespeare by William Blake 1800

Title: William Shakespeare

Object Name: painting

Artist/Maker: Blake, William Role in production: artist Place of Creation: Europe, United Kingdom, England Date: 1800-1803 (circa)

Medium / Material: tempera

Support: canvas

Technique: tempera on canvas

Description: A head portrait of William Shakespeare. He is depicted here with a faint smile, wearing an Elizabethan collar, surrounded by his own characters. To the right of the figurehead, Macbeth stands beside the three witches and to his left, Hamlet observes a ghostly crowned figure. A wreath of rose leaves frames his head whilst ferns fringe and decorate the top corners, in white on the right and black on the left.

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Type: Sight Height: 41 cm Width: 79.5 cm Depth:

Type: Frame Height: 50.8 Width: 88.7

Depth: 7.6
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Source internet
Author
William Blake  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q41513 s:en:Author:William Blake q:en:William Blake
 
William Blake
Alternative names
W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death 28 November 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 12 August 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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London; Felpham Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q41513

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