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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1910.12.2.1-70
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Collection of Seventy Plaster Casts of Gems in wooden box
Classification
Gems
Work Type
gem
Date
1835
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/94298

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wooden box, plaster casts
Dimensions
7.9 x 20.7 x 32.5 cm (3 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 12 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. George E. Ellis, Boston, MA, To the Massachusetts Historical Society. Ellis was the president of the Mass. Historical Society from 1885-1894.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, From Dr. George E. Ellis, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1910.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Accession Year
1910
Object Number
1910.12.2.1-70
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Wooden box with three trays, containing a set of 70 plaster casts of carved gems. A booklet listing the original work for each cast accompanies the set. The cover is handwritten in black ink: Catalogo; the first page is inscribed: Catalogo di 70 Impronte in Stucco scelte dalla Collezione di Pietro Paoletti contenenti 5000, e piu Soggetti. These casts would all have been made by 1835, the date of the letter accompanying the set; the box was sent from Italy to the United States in that year.

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