1943.1225: Diomedes with the Palladium
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.1225
- People
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Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
- Title
- Diomedes with the Palladium
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- relief, sculpture
- Date
- 1773-1796
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229907
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Red stoneware ("Rosso Antico") with black stoneware relief
- Technique
- Relief
- Dimensions
- 7.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 cm (2 13/16 x 2 1/8 x 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower edge, relief, Greek: TNAIOY [=Gnaios]
- inscription: verso, black ink, handwritten: 3 4 12
- label: verso, paper [torn], black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] 219 Dio[med]es with the Palladium [handwritten:] Dr. [An]son Collection
- gallery label: back of frame, paper and black ink, printed: F. RATHBONE / 20 Alfred Place West / South Kensington, / LONDON, S.W.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Lord Thomas Anson, Staffordshire, England. [1] [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Notes
[1] Per Rathbone.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.1225
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Rectangular plaque. Diomedes with Palladium in left hand and sword in right is seated facing a statue of Neptune on a column at right.
Publication History
- Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, p. 137
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 27, p. 19
- Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 29
- Carol Macht, Classical Wedgwood Designs, M. Barrows and Co. (New York, NY, 1957), p. 44
Exhibition History
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
- Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008
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