- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.1239
- People
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Modelled by John Charles Lochée (1751 - )
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
- Title
- Sir William Herschel (1738-1822)
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Sir Frederick William Herschel
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- relief, sculpture
- Date
- 1783
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229909
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- White jasperware body with green glaze, bust in white relief
- Technique
- Jasperware
- Dimensions
- sight: 11.9 × 9.1 × 1.5 cm (4 11/16 × 3 9/16 × 9/16 in.)
framed: 21 × 17.9 cm (8 1/4 × 7 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: below image, impressed: HERSCHEL
- manufacturer's mark: reverse, impressed: WEDGWOOD
- gallery label: reverse, paper, black ink, handwritten: Sir / F.W. Herschel / 1738-1822 / a fine med'n on / green ground by / Flaxman 1782
- label: reverse, paper, black ink, printed and handwritten: [printed:] [WDH in monogram?] [handwritten:]196
- inscription: reverse, graphite, handwritten: Modelled by / Flaxman / 1781
- inscription: backing, black ink, handwritten: W.D. Holt collection 1876(?)
- stamp: backing, black ink, stamped: J & W. VOKINS, / AKERS. 14 [Great Portland St. ] [stamp covered partially by masking tape]
- Provenance
- W. Durning Holt, 1874 [1]. [Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1910, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943
Notes
[1] Per Rathbone
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.1239
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Two firing holes
- Publication History
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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. 50, p. 26
Robin Reilly and George Savage, Wedgwood: The Portrait Medallions, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England, 1973), pp. 191-92
Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 69
- Exhibition History
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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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