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model maquette

Description

A plaster model, or maquette, of the wood panelling designed by Nicolete Gray for the curved wall of the Shakespeare Centre library reading room. The design features the names of William Shakespeare and contemporary writers. According to Fox (1997) a small model (this maquette?) of Nicolete Gray's design was submitted to the Trustees of Shakespeare's Birthplace on 3rd April 1963 and, following their approval of the design, Gray was commissioned to proceed.