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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1185
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Title
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
1774 or after
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229914

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black basalt
Technique
Basaltes ware
Dimensions
28.5 x 24.8 x 13 cm (11 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.)
with base: 39.5 x 24.8 x 13 cm (15 9/16 x 9 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • manufacturer's mark: under base, impressed: WEDGWOOD
  • inscription: under base, graphite, handwritten: 5855 / VH [ ] + / [ ]
  • inscription: under base, graphite, handwritten: 54 [over] A
  • inscription: back of bust, impressed: FLETCHER

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1911, 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
1943.1185
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. 73, p. 31
  • 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, pp. 34-35

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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