Small's well...Bard's portrait in a needle
Daily Express|October 25, 2024
AN artist injected Botox around his eyelids to stop any muscle twitches disturbing him while he engraved the smallest portrait of Shakespeare.
Adam Dutton
Small's well...Bard's portrait in a needle

Graham Short spent hundreds of hours etching the Bard's features on to a speck of 9ct gold which he mounted in the eye of a needle.

The work, which is so tiny it needs a microscope for people to see it, is being sold for £24,000. Each hair on the writer's head is 50 microns wide - half that of human hair.

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