Bust of Mr James Bennett as Hamlet
Created by W. Waite
Date: 1853
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: bust
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Technique: cast, modelled
Description: The bust is a portrait of James Bennett and is described in the exhibition catalogue as being 'of the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, as Hamlet.'
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row (Birmingham Society of Artists), 1853
Citing this record
'Bust of Mr James Bennett as Hamlet', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib4_1202215085, accessed 16 Jan 2021]
