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3521. 1763.d.3(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(17)
Title:
Portrait medallions. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Eight medallion portraits. White. Modelling clay. Original models for moulding from, each one signed 'by Flaxman,' with the modelling tool, and three of them marked 'Wedgwood.' The portraits are: top line from left to right — Mr Meerman, King of Sweden, Mrs Mee...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3522. 1763.d.3(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(18)
Title:
Portrait medallions. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Seven portraits, modern. Blue and white jasper. Lord Bacon, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, Sir William Herschel, Captain Cook, Lord Chief Justice Camden, and Sir Joseph Banks. Of high quality.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3523. 1763.d.3(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(19)
Title:
Bust of Mercury. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bust, Black basaltes. Height, 20 inches...From a model by Flaxman...The bust from which this autotype is taken is an early example of the perfection of art when Wedgwood and Flaxman worked together. This bust remains a great favourite, and good copies are eager...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3524. 1763.d.3(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(20)
Title:
Bust of Ben Jonson. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bust. Black basaltes. Height, 17⅜ inches...The preparation and finish of these fine pieces were effected by one of Wedgwood's best workmen, a man named Keeling, whose speciality was works of this character. The autotype in its lights and shadows does scarcely j...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3525. 1763.d.3(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(21)
Title:
Bust of Duke of Marlborough. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bust. Black basaltes. 9½ inches high. Marked 'Wedgwood.' This must have appeared in 1787, as it is not mentioned in the fifth edition of the Catalogue, or in any lists or invoices within the limits of Wedgwood's life. It is evidently copied from an original in ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3526. 1763.d.3(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(22)
Title:
Statue of Voltaire. Haworth Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Statue. Black, basaltes. Height, 12 inches. This pairs with the statue of Rousseau; both of which are now somewhat rare. Great interest attaches to these statues, not only because they represent two most illustrious men, but also from the fact that Wedgwood use...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3527. 1763.d.3(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(23)
Title:
Statue of Rousseau. Bragg Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Statue. Black, basaltes. Height, 12 inches. This charming figure was modelled in the autumn of 1779, from a whole-length drawing of Rousseau lent to Wedgwood by Sir Joshua Reynolds...Rousseau is taken as he used to appear while botanizing in the gardens of Ermo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3528. 1763.d.3(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(24)
Title:
Homeric vase. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Vase and pedestal. Black basaltes. Height of vase, 27⅛ inches. Height of pedestal, 9½ inches. Together, 36⅝ inches. This splendid example is of the class known as 'Homeric vases' from Flaxman's bas-relief of the 'Apotheosis of Homer' which decorates them. They...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3529. 1763.d.3(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(25)
Title:
Vase. Haworth Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Vase. Black, basaltes. Height, 14 inches...This is a good specimen of one of the early vases in basaltes. The scale or frill ornament is borrowed from the antique; a version of which is found on the Romano-British vases; notably on those dug up in York...The fo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3530. 1763.d.3(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(26)
Title:
Rhyton. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Rhyton, or rather Lêkythos, a vessel for liquid in the form of a female head. Black, basaltes. Height, 11½ inches. This example was probably copies or adapted from illustrations in Sir William Hamilton's great work on vases, or from drawings in Sir Hans Sloane'...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

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