Inscription:
* JOH. WOLFG.v.GOETHE * WILL. SHAKESPEARE * HOMER / q.JAHRH. VORCHR. / 1749-1832 / 1564-1616
Design:
three busts of Goethe (¾ right), Homer (facing, after his conventional antique depiction), and William Shakespeare (¾ left, after the Droeshout portrait, with the detail of the earring taken from the Chandos portrait), with inscription around and vital dates where known; artist's cipher (?) centred, near base
