William Shakespeare – a 63 year old Single Malt from Mortlach Distillery, with a specially commissioned original illustration signed and donated by Sir Quentin Blake. We are about a third of the way through releasing the Macbeth Collection (two acts so far, out of five total), and thought it would be nice to create a release that would sit alongside it, without being part of the collection itself. Shakespeare was the obvious choice, as he wrote the play but does not appear in it. Quentin Blake has generously created a new illustration of Shakespeare and donated it to the auction, with the signed, original drawing included in the sale. Unlike the birds that characterise his illustrations for Macbeth, Shakespeare is drawn as a human, as he stands outside the collection. The drawing is presented in a folio within the presentation case, and represents a rare opportunity for the buyer, as although Quentin will produce works for sale, he very rarely sells published drawings. The drawing has been reproduced only once, on the bottle label itself.
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Lot Estimate: 20,000 - 26,000 GBP