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Fame Adoring Shakespeare's Tomb
ca. 1800
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Oval embroidered silk picture showing a classically draped female figure with wings on her head, strewing flowers on the tomb of Shakespeare. After "Fame Adoring Shakespeare's Tomb," by Angelica Kaufmann. In a landscape with a grassy foreground, architectural element behind the tomb, trees overhead and sky with white clouds. Embroidered in colored silks except for the sky, wings, head, arms and feet, which are painted.
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Details
- Title: Fame Adoring Shakespeare's Tomb
- Date Created: ca. 1800
- Location Created: England
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Medium: silk embroidery on silk foundation, some painted details Technique: embroidered in satin, stem, speckling, knot, and detached chain stitches on plain weave foundation
- Credit line: Gift of Anonymous Donor from the Fraser/Martin Collection
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