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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1192
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Modelled by Jean de Vaere, Belgian (Belgium 1755 - 1830)
Title
Adam Duncan, Admiral Viscount Duncan (1731-1804)
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medallion
Date
1798
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229670

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White jasperware body with lavender glaze front and back, bust in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 9.4 x 7.3 x 2.2 cm (3 11/16 x 2 7/8 x 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: WEDGWOOD
  • gallery label: verso, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE, / S. Kensington / LONDON, S. W. [handwritten:] Admiral / Viscount Duncan / 1731-1804

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1913, 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
1943.1192
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Duncan in left profile, in military uniform with medals. Two firing holes in verso. Duncan's ear is drilled through, almost meeting firing hole.

Publication History

  • Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, p. 135
  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 58, p. 27

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944

Verification Level

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