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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1250
People
Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Modelled by William Hackwood, British (1757 - 1839)
Designed by Elizabeth Templetown, British (1747 - 1823)
Title
Mother and Children, from "Domestic Employment"
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Springtime
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
relief, sculpture
Date
1787
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229995

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White jasperware body with green glaze and figures in white relief
Technique
Jasperware
Dimensions
sight: 13.4 x 10.6 x 1 cm (5 1/4 x 4 3/16 x 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: reverse, graphite, handwritten: [illeg.]
  • label: reverse, paper, black ink, handwritten: 1986/3
  • manufacturer's mark: reverse, impressed: WEDGWOOD

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1250
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Depicts a mother holding a baby, between two small children, one with basket, one with doll.

Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 35, p. 21
  • Harry M. Buten, Wedgwood and Artists, Buten Museum of Wedgwood (Merion, PA, 1960), p. 37

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944

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