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    The Merchant of Venice, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Gregory, John, 1879-1958, sculptor.
    Title: 
    The Merchant of Venice, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1930.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Plaster cast.
    Dimensions: 
    Approx. 75 x 75 x 11 1/2 in.
    Description: 
    Relief with five figures. One man stands in the center of the group; he extends his arms out, holding an open scroll in his proper left hand, and resting his proper right hand on the arm of another man, who holds a knife. The center man's proper right foot rests on a stack of two books; a globe is at the ground on his other side. Four men surround him.
    Subject: 
    Literature -- Shakespeare -- Merchant of Venice
    Performing Arts -- Theater
    Figure group -- Male
    Object -- Written Matter -- Book
    Object -- Other -- Globe
    Object -- Written Matter -- Scroll
    Object Type: 
    Relief
    Outdoor Sculpture -- California -- Claremont
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 333 College Way, Claremont, California 91711-6344
    Located Scripps College, Balch-Sycamore courtyard, Claremont, California 91711-6344
    Provenance: 
    Gift through Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
    Remarks: 
    Original is at Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
    References: 
    Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 1992.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 02240052
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