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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 1763.d.3

1. 1763.d.3

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3
Title:
Choice examples of Wedgwood art. A selection of plaques, cameos, medallions, vases, etc., from the designs of Flaxman and others. Reproduced in permanent photography by the Autotype process. Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1879. Folio, half leather and brown cloth (British Museum binding, recovered 1938), measuring 364 x 296 mm; unpaginated. The work contains 30 finely reproduced autotypes (carbon prints) of works produced by Thomas Wedgwood, the...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
30 items

2. 1763.d.3(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(1)
Title:
Ceres. Haworth Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Frontispiece. Wedgwood portrait medallion: 'Antique, dull sage-green jasper, white relief. Bevelled edge with a running border of acanthus leaves. Height, 7¾ inches...This head, as a specimen of Wedgwood's portraits after the antique, is admirable...This copy of...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

3. 1763.d.3(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(2)
Title:
Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. Haworth Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Oval bas-relief or tablet. Rather dark blue jasper, white relief. Length 16¾ inches; height, 11¾ inches...This is one of the finest and largest known examples of Wedgwood's countless reproductions of the famous, though not the rarest or most valuable, of the Ma...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

4. 1763.d.3(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(3)
Title:
Aesculapius and Hygeia. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bas-relief or tablet. Mazarine blue jasper, white relief. Height, 8¼ inches, width, 6⅞ inches. Marked 'Wedgwood.' This exquisite piece is taken from a bas-relief in the Museo Capitolino, Rome...Every detail bears careful examination; and the whole bas-relief we...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

5. 1763.d.3(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(4)
Title:
Endymion on the rock Latmus. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bas-relief or tablet. Dull sage-green jasper, white relief. Height, 9¼ inches; width, 7½ inches...Nothing finer than these plaques is extant of Wedgwood's fine art works...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

6. 1763.d.3(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(5)
Title:
Diana. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bas-relief or tablet. Dull sage-green jasper, white relief. Height, 9¼ inches; width, 7½ inches...The modelling and finish of this plaque are perhaps even more exquisite than in the Endymion, and the cracks in the relief and the patina which covers the whole g...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

7. 1763.d.3(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(6)
Title:
Mercury joining the hands of France and England. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bas-relief or tablet. White. China and blue ball clay. Height 8¾ inches; width, 8⅛ inches...This plaque is engraved in the 'Life of Wedgwood,' vol. ii, p. 564...The granulations in the clay, purposely coarse to secure sharpness of effect, and thus perceptible i...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

8. 1763.d.3(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(7)
Title:
Peace preventing Mars from opening the gates of Janus. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bas-relief or tablet. White. China and blue ball clay. Height, 9⅝; width, 8½ inches...A copy of this bas-relief, though in much smaller form, appears in 'Wedgwood and his works,' plate VIII., but for the reason mentioned on the previous page, it is thus repeate...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

9. 1763.d.3(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(8)
Title:
Priam begging the body of Hector. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bas-relief or tablet. Pale sage-green jasper, white relief. Length, 15⅛ inches; height, 6 inches...This bas-relief will be found engraved in 'Life of Wedgwood,' vol. ii. p. 591; but as here represented we lose not a detail or an expression of the original piece...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

10. 1763.d.3(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(9)
Title:
Three warriors and a horse. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bas-relief or tablet. Height, 6⅝ inches. Blue jasper, white relief. The original of this small plaque, which is purely Greek in design and character, was taken from the dexter part of the same sarcophagus as furnished the larger bas-relief of 'Priam begging for...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

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