• Title
  [Captain James Cook, ca. 1777 / medallion portrait by Wedgwood and Bentley in gilt frame]
• Call number
  P*25
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 3, Shelf 47
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1770
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  431182
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 8.2 x 6.3 cm. (portrait, site) - 15.7 x 14.1 cm., frame (loop, 1.3 cm.) - 1 white on blue jasper ware medallion, dipped darker blue, stored in gilt mount placed inside wooden frame set within a gold painted oval shaped wooden frame with glass front. The frame is moulded and bears a decorative border. A pin and brass loop is affixed to the back of the frame to assist in hanging.
  
• Scope and Content
  This portrait is a three-quarter profile of James Cook in relief.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  This Wedgwood medallion, after the portrait by William Hodges, is similar to P*24 but is slightly brighter blue in colour. A similar medallion is held in the Dixson Library collection at DL Pa 95.
  Possibly modelled by John Flaxman Jnr. ca. 1777-1780.
  A crack is visible across the mid-section of the portrait.
  This medallion was bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell in 1907. -- Reference: The Public Library of New South Wales : annual report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st December 1908. Sydney : Public Library of New South Wales. Trustees, 1909.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Capt. Cook" stamped at truncation of bust.
  "Wedgwood / & Bentley" impressed on reverse of plaque.
  "7424" carved into reverse of medallion.
  On an rectangular paper label on back of frame, "Capt Cook. / 1728-1779"
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bentley, Thomas, 1731-1780
  Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795
  
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  medallions
  naval officers
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Artist and the patron
  Heads of illustrious moderns : Wedgwood portrait medallions
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8805600

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