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Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

19th Century

GUSN

GUSN-1443

Description

Carved in brownstone with backing in shape of keystone. Head (of Shakespeare or Bacon?) with typical Elizabethan hair, beard, mustache and ruffled collar; painted gray.

Details

Descriptive Terms

brackets (structural elements)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
stone (rock)
Elizabethan
Stone
Carved
Painted
Elizabethean
Shakespeare
BRACKET

Associated Building

Original To Old Hadleigh Church,

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

In memory of Frank M. Ferrin, Newton, MA.

Accession Number

1939.588

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