M.H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann Shakespeare papers and prints

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M.H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann Shakespeare papers and prints

1710-1913

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Contains materials related to M.H. Spielmann's investigation into portrayals of William Shakespeare in the visual arts. This includes research notes, annotated publications by other scholars, unpublished manuscript material by Spielmann on the topic, as well as photographs and reproductions of prints. Correspondence relating to Spielmann's research is included, mixed with notes and drawings. Further materials include oversized engravings, etchings, lithographs, oleographs, photographs, and additional reproductions of visual portrayals of Shakespeare. A few portrait prints of other inviduals contemporary to Shakespeare are included, such as Elizabeth I of England, Ben Jonson, Anne Hathaway, David Garrick, James I of England, Thomas Lord Coventry, and John Pym, among others. Among the prints are also depictions of memorials and monuments to Shakespeare, his birthplace and home, and churches featuring Shakespeare memorials or in his hometown.

10.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

Houghton Library

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Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry), 1858-1948

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Marion Harry Alexander Spielmann (London 22 May 1858 – 1948) was a prolific Victorian art critic and scholar and the editor of The Connoisseur and Magazine of Art. Among his voluminous output, he wrote a history of Punch, the first biography of John Everett Millais, and a detailed investigation into the evidence for portraits of William Shakespeare. Marion Spielmann (perhaps confusingly, several female relatives were similarly called Marian Spielmann) was born in London in 1858, the younges...