1943.1197: Nymph with Cymbals, after frescoes at Pompeii
Medals and Medallions
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.1197
- People
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Wedgwood, British (founded 1759 )
- Title
- Nymph with Cymbals, after frescoes at Pompeii
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Herculaneum Nymph with Cymbals
- Classification
- Medals and Medallions
- Work Type
- medallion
- Date
- 1773-1783
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Etruria
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230233
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- White jasperware body with dark blue (or black) glaze
- Technique
- Jasperware
- Dimensions
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21.7 × 3 cm (8 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
framed: 36.1 × 36.2 × 4 cm (14 3/16 × 14 1/4 × 1 9/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- manufacturer's mark: reverse, impressed: WEDGWOOD
- gallery label: reverse, black ink on paper, printed and handwritten: [printed:] F. RATHBONE / South Kensington, / LONDON SW; [handwritten:] Herculaneum nymph / & cymbals. Bk & w rare / one in V&A museum / 1792 Propert & Sanderson / colls. / [ ] / 49
- inscription: back of frame, black ink, handwritten: No. 1
- inscription: back of frame, black ink, handwritten: 1098
- inscription: back of frame, graphite, handwritten: left of [oru--?]
- inscription: back of frame, graphite, handwritten: Up
- label: reverse, black ink, handwritten: WB [in monogram] 962
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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William Bartlett. Dr. J. Lumsden Propert, London, England. Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh, Scotland. [Frederick Rathbone, London, England], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1911, 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
- 1943.1197
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jean Gorely, "The Winthrop Collection", Old Wedgwood, Wellesley Press, Inc. (Wellesley, MA, 1943), no. 10, pp. 132-139, p. 134
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), no. 28, pp.19-20
- Jean Gorely, "Pedigreed Wedgwood", The Magazine Antiques (January 1945), pp. 29-31, p. 29, repr.
- Jean Gorely, Wedgwood, M. Barrows and Co. (New York, 1950), p. 100, cat. no. 58, repr.
- Carol Macht, Classical Wedgwood Designs, M. Barrows and Co. (New York, NY, 1957), p. 76
- Lloyd E. Hawes, "Herculaneum Wall Paintings", The American Wedgwoodian (December 1965), vol. II, no. 2, p. 24, fig. 9
Exhibition History
- A Collection of Plaques, Medallions, Vases, Figures, &c..., Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, 01/01/1901 - 12/31/1901
- Old Wedgwood from the Bequest of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1944 - 09/03/1944
- Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008
Verification Level
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