1943.1213: David Garrick (1717-1779)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1213

People

Wedgwood & Bentley, British (in business 1769-1780)
After Thomas Pingo, British (Italy c. 1692 - 1776 London)
Modelled by William Hackwood, British (1757 - 1839)

Title

David Garrick (1717-1779)

Classification

Medals and Medallions

Work Type

medallion

Date

c. 1777

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229682

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black basaltes in pendant sunburst frame

Technique

Basaltes ware

Dimensions

sight: 5 x 4.2 x 1 cm (1 15/16 x 1 5/8 x 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower edge, impressed: GARRICK
• manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: Wedgwood / & Bentley

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall 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

1943.1213

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Garrick in right profile with ponytail and classical robe.

Publication History

• Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 59, p. 27
• Robin Reilly and George Savage, Wedgwood: The Portrait Medallions, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England, 1973), p. 159
• Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 71
• Casey Monahan, "'If I offer you too much you have the remedy by declining it!:' Frederick Rathbone and the Grenville Lindall Winthrop Collection of Wedgwood at the Harvard Art Museums", Proceedings of the Sixty-Fourth Annual Wedgwood International Seminar, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, 2019), pp. 33-43, p. 34

Exhibition History

• Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
• Garrick, Houghton Library, Cambridge, 01/01/1964 - 02/28/1964
• Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1975 - 09/22/1975

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