Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1198: Four Boys Under Trees Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Four Boys Under Trees (Wedgwood)(Designed by? Elizabeth Templetown) , 1943.1198,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 17, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/229938. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1198 People Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 ) Designed by? Elizabeth Templetown, British (1747 - 1823) Title Four Boys Under Trees Other Titles Alternate Title: Four Sportive Cupids Classification Sculpture Work Type relief, sculpture Date 18th century Places Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/229938 Physical Descriptions Medium White jasperware body with green glaze on front; figures in white relief Technique Jasperware Dimensions sight: 9.9 × 13.5 × 1.5 cm (3 7/8 × 5 5/16 × 9/16 in.) framed: 27 × 30.5 cm (10 5/8 × 12 in.) Inscriptions and Marks manufacturer's mark: reverse, impressed: WEDGWOOD inscription: reverse, black ink, handwritten: 9165 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 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 1943.1198 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Four boys, one with wings visible: one, seated, holds a flower (?), one holds [Athena's?] helmet with a snake, one holds a dove, and one an hourglass. One small firing hole. Publication History Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 37, p. 22 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. 37 Exhibition History Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
