Dimensions 15 3/4 x 8 x 6 1/2 in. (40 x 20.3 x 16.5 cm)
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; The Buten Wedgwood Collection, gift through the Wedgwood Society of New York, AFI.3256.2008
Signature Incised on the side of the bust I. E. BOEHM fecit and dated 1879
Marks On the underside, inside of the pedestal base impressed WEDGWOOD; on the back of the bust above the inscription impressed WEDGWOOD
Inscription On the back of the bust impressed SUBSCRIPTION COPY / FREDERICK RATHBONE / 71 KING'S ROAD / BRIGHTON and on the underside of the bust's rear truncation the name W. E. GLADSTONE
Provenance Purchased 1960 by Harry Buten (1904-1971) and Nettie Buten (1902-1998), Merion, Pennsylvania; by descent to their children Max, David, Iris and Beatrice Buten, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [see note 1]; by gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art in 2008
1. The bust was part of the Buten Museum of Wedgwood in Merion, Pennsylvania, until the museum was closed in 1988 and the entire collection was transferred on long-term loan to the Nassau County Museums in Sands Point, Long Island, New York, where it remained until moved to the BMA in 2008.
