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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1220
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Modelled by Edward Burch Jr., British (1730 - 1814)
Title
George III (1738-1820)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
relief, sculpture
Date
c. 1787
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229690

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White jasperware body with lavender glaze back and front, bust in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 8.8 × 6.7 × 1.5 cm (3 7/16 × 2 5/8 × 9/16 in.)
framed: 19.6 × 17.5 cm (7 11/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: reverse, impressed: WEDGWOOD
  • gallery label: reverse, paper, black ink, printed: F. RATHBONE / 20 Alfred Place West / South Kensington, / LONDON S.W
  • gallery label: reverse, paper, black ink, graphite, handwritten: [black ink:] George III. Pink ground. Formerly / in the Royal Collection. Given by / HM Queen Victoria to an Equerry. / Frame designed by HRH the / Prince Consort / [graphite:] 80
  • inscription: reverse of plaque, graphite: 76

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Queen Victoria, gift; to unidentified equerry [1]. J. Ruston, Lincoln, England, sold [by his executors]; to Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh, 1897 [2], sold; to [Frederick Rathbone, London, 1907] [3], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1911, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943


Notes
[1] Royal Collection, U.K., Gift of Queen Victoria to an equerry. May have entered the Royal Collection during the reign of King George III

[2] Per Frederick Rathbone

[3] Per Frederick Rathbone and 1945 Gorley article.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1220
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
King George in left profile.

Publication History

  • Frederick Rathbone, Old Wedgwood, the decorative or artistic ceramic work, in colour and relief, invented and produced by Josiah Wedgwood, at Etruria, in Staffordshire, 1760-1794, B. Quaritch (London, England, 1898), pl. LVII
  • Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, pp. 134, 135-6
  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 40, p. 23
  • Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 29
  • Robin Reilly and George Savage, Wedgwood: The Portrait Medallions, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England, 1973), p. 166, no. g; color plate VII, facing p. 208
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), p. 127, no. 56, ill.

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

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