1943.1188: Pindar

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.1188

People

Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
Reworked by William Hackwood, British (1757 - 1839)
Modelled by Hoskins & Grant, British (18th c.)

Title

Pindar

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture, bust

Date

c. 1778

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230221

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black basalt

Technique

Basaltes ware

Dimensions

5.9 x 5.6 x 3.2 cm (2 5/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
with base: 12.6 x 5.6 x 3.2 cm (4 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: back, impressed: PINDAR
• inscription: inside base, incised: 3
• inscription: inside base, graphite, handwritten: 1250

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1916, 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

1943.1188

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, pp. 136-137
• Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 69, p. 30

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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