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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1200
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Designed by John Flaxman, British (York, England 1755 - 1826 London, England)
Title
Princess Frederica Louise Wilhelmina (1770-1819)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
c. 1782
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229678

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oval jasper medallion; high white relief on dipped blue ground
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 8.6 x 6.5 x 2.2 cm (3 3/8 x 2 9/16 x 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: reverse, impressed: WEDGWOOD
  • inscription: reverse, incised: Louise Frederique Wilhelmina
  • label: reverse, paper, black ink, handwritten: Frederique Louise Willemine / Princess of Orange

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1912, 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
1943.1200
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Princess Louise in right profile.

Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 43, p. 24
  • Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 31, repr.

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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