2003.240: Dagger
Weapons and Ammunition
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2003.240
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Dagger
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Romantic Dagger
- Classification
- Weapons and Ammunition
- Work Type
- dagger
- Date
- c. 1840s
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/70808
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cast bronze with gilded silver and engraved steel
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
- 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
David & Constance Yates, New York, NY, Sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Mariot Fraser Solomon in memory of Arthur K. Solomon
- Accession Year
- 2003
- Object Number
- 2003.240
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Dagger in the romantic style, the handle a cast figure of "Invidia" (Envy) with serpents intertwining her legs and in her hair, piercing herself with a dagger; a sharp steel pointed blade and a decorative sheath with incised grotesques including a dragon and cast bronze mounts of strapwork and masks.
Publication History
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, and Sarah Anne Carter, Tangible Things: Making History through Objects, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, 2015), p. 17, repr. as fig. 18
Exhibition History
- Tangible Things, The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Cambridge, 01/24/2011 - 05/29/2011
Verification Level
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