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
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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...
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...
Marriage of Cupid and Psyche. Haworth Collection. Photographer: Unknown
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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...
Aesculapius and Hygeia. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
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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...