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Portrait Bust of William Shakespeare

Late 19th century
Artist/maker unknown, American?
Portrait busts of literary figures such as John Milton and William Shakespeare are noted in several eighteenth-century Philadelphia inventories, and were displayed on carved brackets or shelves.

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