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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(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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 1763.d.3(14b)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(14b)
Title:
Drunken Silenus. Cox Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Oval medallion. White terra-cotta or biscuit impressed. Length, 8 inches; height, 6 inches...This piece is from another of Mrs Landre's models, executed for Wedgwood in 1768-9. She received 5s. for her work. The autotype is from an early example. In 1776 this a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

9. 1763.d.3(15a)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(15a)
Title:
Bacchanalian boys. Cox Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Oval bas-relief. Blue jasper, white relief. Length, 5 inches; height, 3¾...It is one of four 'Groups of Boys' modelled for Wedgwood by Mrs Landre in January, 1769. The price paid for the four models was £1 1s. These groups were at first modelled in an ordinary ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

10. 1763.d.3(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
1763.d.3(13)
Title:
Sacrifice to Hymen. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Oval bas-relief or tablet. Blue jasper, white relief. Length, 10⅞ inches; height, 7⅞ inches...It is a charming composition. The pose of the Cupid holding the wreath is very graceful; and the manner in which the Cupid with the hymeneal torch embraces his smaller...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

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