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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1104
People
James Tassie, British, English (Pollokshaws, Scotland 1735 - 1799 London, England)
Title
Colonel Henry Hamilton (1734-1796)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
relief, sculpture
Date
1786
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229872

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White glass paste relief on clear glass paste ground
Dimensions
sight: 11.3 x 7.7 x 2.5 cm (4 7/16 x 3 1/16 x 1 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: impressed on truncation: H.H. / T. F. 1786
  • inscription: mount, gold paint: HENRY HAMILTON / LATE GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF DOMINIQUE IN THE / WEST INDIES. BORN 30th NOVr 1735. DIED 12th SEPTr 1796. // WHILE MANLY COURAGE WITH THE GENTLEST MIND / WHILE EVERY GRACE WITH EVERY VIRTUE JOIND / WHILE MODEST MERIT IS ALLOWED DESERT / WITH SUCH SUPREME BENEVOLENCE OF HEART / WHILE TRUTH CAN SUCH A PANEGYRIC GIVE / SO LONG Oh HAMILTON THY NAME SHALL LIVE.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 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
1943.1104
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 113, p. 42

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

Verification Level

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