In more recent times numerous attempts have been made to reconstitute the figure of Shakespeare in sculpture. One of the most ambitious of these is Lord Ronald Gower's elaborate me morial group presented by himself to Stratford and set up outside the Memorial Theatre in 1888. In 1864 J. E. Thomas modelled the colossal group of Shakespeare with attendant figures of Com edy and Tragedy that was erected in the grounds of the Crystal Palace, and in the same year Charles Bacon produced his huge Centenary Bust. The chief statues, single or in a group, in Lon don still to be mentioned are the following : that by H. H. Arm stead, R.A., in marble, on the southern podium of the Albert Memorial; by Sir Hamo Thornycroft, R.A. (1871), on the Poets' Fountain in Park Lane; by Messrs. Daymond on the upper storey of the City of London School, on the Victoria Embankment ; and by F. E. Schenck, a seated figure, on the façade of the Hammer smith Public Library. The Droeshout portrait is the basis of the head in the bronze memorial by Professor Lanteri set into the wall on the conjectural site of the Globe Theatre (1909) and of the excellent bust by Mr. C. J. Allen in the churchyard of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, in memory of Heminge and Condell (1896). A recumbent statue, with head of the Droeshout type, executed by H. McCarthy, was, through the efforts of Dr. R. W. Leftwich and the generosity of Mr. S. Saltus (an American lover of the poet) erected, in t912, in the south aisle of Southwark Cathedral. Among statues erected in the provinces are those by H. Pegram in the building of Birmingham University (1908) and by M. Guillemin for the Nottingham University buildings. An imposing Shakespeare Monument by Sir Bertram Mackennal, has been erected in Sidney (1927).
Several statues of importance have been set up in other coun tries. The bronze by Paul Fournier in Paris (presented by an English resident) marks the junction of the Boulevard Hauss mann and the Avenue de Messine (1888). The seated marble statue by Professor 0. Lessing was erected in Weimar by the German Shakespeare Society; and a seated statue in stone roughly hewn with characteristic breadth by the Danish/sculptor, Louis Hasselriis, has for some years been placed in the apartment of the Castle of Kronborg, in which, according to the Danish tradi tion, Shakespeare and his company acted for the king of Den mark; the present castle, however, was not built till a later period. America possesses some well-known statues. That by J. Q. A. Ward is in Central Park, New York (1872). In 1886 W. 0. Partridge modelled and carved the seated marble figure for Lin coln Park, Chicago ; and later, Frederick MacMonnies produced his very imaginative statue for the Library of Congress, Washing ton, D.C. This is in some measure based on the Droeshout en graving. William R. O'Donovan also sculptured a portrait of Shakespeare in 1874. Undue consideration was given by some to the bust made by William Page of New York in preparation for a picture of the poet he was about to paint. As he was no sculptor the bust is no more successful than the picture. The bust by R. S. Greenough, based in part on the "Boston Zuccaro" portrait, must be included here, as well as the romantic marble bust by Augusto Possaglio of Florence (presented to the Garrick Club by the tragedian Salvini in 1876) ; the imaginative work by Altini (Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle) and the busts by F. M. Miller, E. G. Zimmermann, Albert Toft, J. E. Carew
and P. J. Chardigny of Paris. The last named was a study made in 1850, for a proposed statue, ioo ft. high. Attention has been accorded for several years past to the large pottery bust in high relief attributed to John Dwight's Fulham Pottery (c. 1675) ; the present writer, however, has established that it is by Lips combe, in the latter portion of the 19th century.
For the less significant sections of portraiture—the wood-carv ings (including the medallion traditionally said to have been cut by Hogarth and inset in the back of the "Shakespeare Chair" presented to Garrick) ; the medals, coins, and token-money; porce lain and pottery—figures, busts, etc. ; engraved gems ; and nu merous other items, space cannot here be found. The curious reader is referred to the article in the eleventh edition of this work for numerous details touching the whole subject.