Repost 4 January 2020:

Always a treat to see the Shakespeare Window up the top level of the @state_library_victoria dome – apparently it was one of the earliest made in Melbs, in 1862. And quite a survivor, originally in the Haymarket Theatre in Bourke Street, but taken out by impresario #GeorgeCoppin who had commissioned it, to go into his house, just as well since the theatre burned down in 1870. It was eventually bequeathed to the library in 1960 and restored in 2005 to go here. (Not sure where it was in between). Their blurb says ‘it’s based on a sculpture by London-based French sculptor Louis François Roubiliac (1702-1762), commissioned by David Garrick, and now

held at the British Library.’ So another library connection.

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