1943.1204: Zeno

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1204

People

Refinished by William Hackwood, British (1757 - 1839)
Modelled by Hoskins & Grant, British (18th c.)
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )

Title

Zeno

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

bust, sculpture

Date

1774

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229680

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black basalt

Technique

Basaltes ware

Dimensions

41 × 25.5 × 23 cm (16 1/8 × 10 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
bust with base: 52.2 × 25.5 × 23 cm (20 9/16 × 10 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: back of bust, impressed: ZENO
• manufacturer's mark: back of bust, impressed: Wedgwood / & Bentley
• gallery label: back of bust, paper, black ink, handwritten: ZENO Bust made by Wedgwood / for his friend Dr. Erasmus Darwin / 1776 / W. E. Darwin Coll.
• gallery label: inside base, paper, black ink, graphite, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE, / South Kensington, / LONDON, S.W. / [handwritten in graphite:] Wedgwood / & Bentley / [handwritten in black ink:] Zeno. Fine basalt / Bust made for / Dr. Erasmus / Darwin / 1770.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

William Erasmus Darwin [1], sold; to [Frederick Rathbone, London, 1913], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1913, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Notes
[1] Rathbone suggests that the bust descended through the Wedgwood-Darwin family. William Erasmus Darwin was Josiah Wedgwood's great-grandson

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1204

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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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. 70, p. 30
• Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 29

Exhibition History

• Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
• Old Wedgwood, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1973 - 05/27/1973

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