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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.943
People
John Thwaites, British, English (1780 - 1816)
Title
Spring-Driven Musical Clock
Classification
Timepieces
Work Type
clock
Date
1786
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230090

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Case of oak veneered in tortoiseshell, silver mounts hallmarked "1" (1786), silver columns with cloisonné enamel
Dimensions
39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.943
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 228, cat. 146, ill. p. 229
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), repr. in color p. 22 as fig. 18

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