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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
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Iain Mackintosh - The Face and Figure of ShakespeareH0.52This talk precedes an exhibition (from April to June 2009 in Orleans House Gallery, Richmond upon Thames) to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the delivery of Roubiliac's statue of Shakespeare to Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare on the riverside at nearby Hampton, which set off a decade of Shakespeare celebrations culminating in the first Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon. This also follows on from the National Portrait Gallery's 2006 exhibition which took the search for the face of Shakespeare to 1719 and George Vertue's confirmation of the Chandos portrait as the true likeness of Shakespeare. The Face and Figure of Shakespeare presents the 18th century invention of a very different National Hero. |