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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1178
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Modelled by John Flaxman, British (York, England 1755 - 1826 London, England)
Title
Pegasus Cared for by Nymphs
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Nymphs Attending Pegasus
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
c. 1790
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229550

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White jasperware body with green and lavender glaze
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 6.5 × 10.1 × 1.3 cm (2 9/16 × 4 × 1/2 in.)
frame: 17.5 × 21.4 cm (6 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: reverse, incised: WEDGWOOD / o
  • gallery label: reverse, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE, / South Kensington, / LONDON, S.W. / [handwritten:] Old Wedgwood / [2 lines, illeg.]
  • label: reverse, paper, black ink, handwritten: The Muses / watering Pegasus / John Flaxman R.A. / Dr. J. L. Propert's and / Arthur Sanderson / Coll'n

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. J. Lumsden Propert, London, England, sold; to [Frederick Rathbone, London, England, 1902], sold; to Arthur Sanderson, Edinbugh, Scotland, sold; to [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1910, 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
1943.1178
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Green ground behind white figures, lavender border. Bump in ground at left, inclusion in ceramic?

Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 25, p. 17; repr. p. 53
  • Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 30, repr.
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 210, 211, no. 135

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969

Verification Level

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