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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1609
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Title
Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800)
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medallion
Date
1775
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229377

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White jasperware with lavender glaze and head in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 4.1 x 3.3 x 1 cm (1 5/8 x 1 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: WEDGWOOD
  • label: verso, paper, black ink, printed: F. RATHBONE / 20 Alfred Place West / S. Kensington, / LONDON S. W.
  • label: verso, paper, black ink, handwritten: Mrs. Montague / 1720-1800 / 1785

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1915, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1609
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Mrs. Montagu in profile right. Two firing holes on verso.

Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 60, p. 27
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), p. 132, no. 65, ill.
  • Casey Monahan, "'If I offer you too much you have the remedy by declining it!:' Frederick Rathbone and the Grenville Lindall Winthrop Collection of Wedgwood at the Harvard Art Museums", Proceedings of the Sixty-Fourth Annual Wedgwood International Seminar, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, 2019), pp. 33-43, p. 41

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
  • Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1975 - 09/22/1975

Verification Level

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