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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1213
People
Wedgwood & Bentley, British (in business 1769-1780)
After Thomas Pingo, British (Italy c. 1692 - 1776 London)
Modelled by William Hackwood, British (1757 - 1839)
Title
David Garrick (1717-1779)
Classification
Medals and Medallions
Work Type
medallion
Date
c. 1777
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229682

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black basaltes in pendant sunburst frame
Technique
Basaltes ware
Dimensions
sight: 5 x 4.2 x 1 cm (1 15/16 x 1 5/8 x 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower edge, impressed: GARRICK
  • manufacturer's mark: verso, impressed: Wedgwood / & Bentley

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1910, 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
1943.1213
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Garrick in right profile with ponytail and classical robe.

Publication History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 59, p. 27
  • Robin Reilly and George Savage, Wedgwood: The Portrait Medallions, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England, 1973), p. 159
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 71
  • Casey Monahan, "'If I offer you too much you have the remedy by declining it!:' Frederick Rathbone and the Grenville Lindall Winthrop Collection of Wedgwood at the Harvard Art Museums", Proceedings of the Sixty-Fourth Annual Wedgwood International Seminar, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, 2019), pp. 33-43, p. 34

Exhibition History

  • Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
  • Garrick, Houghton Library, Cambridge, 01/01/1964 - 02/28/1964
  • Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1975 - 09/22/1975

Verification Level

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