Black-Figure Hydria (water vessel)
the Affecter (Greek)

William Henry Lawrence Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, the eighth Earl Fitzwilliam (1919–1948), Wentworth Woodhouse, York, England, by 1948 [1];
Purchased at his posthumous sale, Etruscan and Greek vases, fine English furniture, objects of art, clocks and English carpets, the property of Earl Fitzwilliam’s Wentworth Estates Company, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, July 15, 1948, by William Randolf Hearst (1863–1951), Beverly Hills, California, 1948–1951 [2];
His posthumous sale, From the Collection of the Late William Randolph Hearst. Egyptian, Greek & Roman art, Greek terracotta vases, Gothic and Renaissance sculptures, furniture and stained glass, architectural stonework, three notable paintings, Renaissance silver, XV century Valencian ware, Italian majolica, old English silver, English & American furniture, no. 9, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 7–8, 1951.
With Jacob Hirsch (1874–1955), dealer, New York, by February 19, 1953–November 30, 1953 [3];
His sale to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1953.

[1] Letter from Jacob Hirsch to Eugene Kingman, 19 February 1953, Joslyn Art Museum, Registrar Files.

[2] Provenance listed as “W. R. Hearst” in Ann Steiner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. United States of America. Joslyn Art Museum 21 (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1986), 11; Letter from dealer Jacob Hirsch, February 19, 1953, details provenance from “R. W. Hearst,” and some internal records in the object file reflect that spelling, Joslyn Art Museum, Registrar Files. Given the object’s publication in the Parke-Bernet sale catalogue, it is assumed that Hirsch and, subsequently, Joslyn Art Museum, misspelled the prior owner’s name. An error which Steiner caught.

[3] Prior Joslyn staff assumed that Hirsch purchased the vessel from the Parke-Bernet 1951 sale, but no documentation in the object file confirms this assumption.

Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections, Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979–February 24, 1980.

Between Myth and Reality: Ancient Greek Vases from Joslyn Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 24, 2022–June 4, 2023.

Parke-Bernet Galleries, From the Collection of the Late William Randolph Hearst. Egyptian, Greek & Roman art, Greek terra cotta vases, Gothic and Renaissance sculptures, furniture and stained glass, architectural stonework, three notable paintings, Renaissance silver, XV century Valencian ware, Italian majolica, old English silver, English & American furniture (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1951), 4–5, no. 9 (repro).

 “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July–September, 1953,” Art Quarterly 17 (1954): 63.

Dietrich von Bothmer, Amazons in Greek Art (Oxford: Calrendon Press, 1957), 30, 33–34, no. 6, pl. 29.

M. Robertson, “The Amasis Painter by S. Karouzou,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 78 (1958): 168.

Philip Gurney, “Utility of Greek Vases Led to Art, Beauty” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, June 2, 1960, 46, (repro.).

J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 247.

Heide Mommsen, Der Affecter (Mainz, Germany: P. von Zabern, 1975), 106, no. 89, pl. 97, (repro.).

Dietrich von Bothmer, “Der Affecter by Heide Mommsen” American Journal of Archaeology 80 (1976): 435.

Lucilla Burn and Ruth Glynn, Beazely Addenda: additional referenced to ABV, ARV2 & Paralipomena (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), 31.

Warren G. Moon and Louise Berge, Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), 78–79, no. 47.

A. W. Johnston, Trademarks on Greek Vases (Warminster, England: Aris & Philips, 1979), 131.

Ann Steiner, Joslyn Art Museum: Ancient Greek Pottery (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1985), 58–59, fig. 17 (repro.).

Ann Steiner, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. United States of America. Joslyn Art Museum 21 (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1986), 10–12, 33, 36–37, pls. 16:1–2, 17: 1–3, 18: 1–2 (repro.).