Harvard Art Museums > 1943.1189: Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) (Wedgwood) , 1943.1189,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/229551. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.1189 People Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 ) Title Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture, relief Date 1777 Places Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria Culture British Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/229551 Physical Descriptions Medium Black basalt Technique Basaltes ware Dimensions sight: 19.1 x 14.8 x 3.5 cm (7 1/2 x 5 13/16 x 1 3/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks gallery label: backing, paper, black ink, printed: F. RATHBONE, / 40 Alfred Place West, / South Kensington, / LONDON, SW gallery label: backing, paper, black ink, handwritten: [on blue-bordered label:] Sir Isaac Newton. / High Relief. Rare. 1785 / No. 887 in Liverpool Catalogue, 1879. inscription: in ground below bust, graphite, handwritten: [faint, almost illeg.:] Isaac Newton Provenance Recorded Ownership History T. Shadford Walker, Liverpool, England.[1] Sir Richard Tangye, Birmingham, England. [2] [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1914, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Notes [1] Per Rathbone [2] Per Old Wedgwood Catalogue, but not on Rathbone's invoice Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.1189 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Full front bust in contemporary costume and wig. Publication History Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, p. 136 Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 45, p. 24 Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 31, repr. Exhibition History Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
