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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1199
People
Wedgwood & Bentley, British (in business 1769-1780)
Designed by John Flaxman, British (York, England 1755 - 1826 London, England)
Sir Joseph Banks
Title
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
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/229677

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Blue grey jasperware body with shoulder-length bust in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 7.8 x 6.2 x 2.1 cm (3 1/16 x 2 7/16 x 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 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
1943.1199
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Banks in left profile, in military uniform, with queue. 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. 46, p. 25
  • Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 29, repr.
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), p. 133, no. 67; ill. p. 96

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
  • Benjamin Franklin: A How-to Guide, The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, 08/27/2007 - 09/30/2007

Verification Level

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