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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1249.1-21
People
James Tassie, British, English (Pollokshaws, Scotland 1735 - 1799 London, England)
Title
Frame of six intaglios and fifteen reliefs
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
18th century
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229986

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Glass paste portraits in relief and intaglio
Dimensions
24 x 20.8 x 4.5 cm (9 7/16 x 8 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: back of frame, handwritten: Princess Charlotte; Queen Charlotte; George III; Empress Catherine of Russia; Empress Julia; Shakespeare; Drusus Roma General by Missop [sic?]; Lord Duncan; Dt Henry Quin; Wm Pitt

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London], sold; [through Cooper and Griffith, New York] 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
1943.1249.1-21
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Brown wooden oval frame, sealed at back. All cameos in thin gold wire "frames," affixed to backing.

Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 114, p. 42
  • 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. 35, 37

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