Staffordshire ware figure of Shakespeare in close-up.

Staffordshire ware figure of Shakespeare

Made around 1830.

This figure was modelled on the statue at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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Why change his image?
To celebrate him?
To promote him?
To play at politics?

To reinvent him?
the early likenesses
 his first published portrait One from the family gallery
his funeral bust
 A stately statue

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