74.1936: Spoon
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 74.1936
- People
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Jacob Hurd, American (Charlestown, MA 1702/3 - 1758 Roxbury, MA)
- Title
- Spoon
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- spoon
- Date
- 18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/232799
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: Makers mark, HURD, in Roman letters in cartouche
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, Cambridge, MA, 1737.
To his grand-nephew, David Wadsworth.
Descended through family to Charles David Wadsworth.
Given to Harvard College, 1935.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Harvard University, Gift of Charles D. Wadsworth
- Object Number
- 74.1936
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- One of seven spoons once the property of Benjamin Wadsworth, A.B. 1690, the ninth president of Harvard, 1725-1736/37.
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Verification Level
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