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2. 1763.d.3(16)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1763.d.3(16)
- Title:
- Frame of cameos. Cox Collection. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Twenty-two cameos of high quality. Blue and white jasper. The subjects are chiefly taken from Tassie's pastes...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1879
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. 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
4. 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
5. 1763.d.3(12)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1763.d.3(12)
- Title:
- Birth of Bacchus. Haworth Collection. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of 'Bas-relief or tablet. Fine blue jasper, white relief. Length, 20½ inches; height, 9½ inches...In spite of obvious defects in modelling, this was a very popular bas-relief, and many copies were sent abroad. The one from which this autotype was taken came from Russia....
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1879
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. 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 eagerly bo...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1879
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. 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 the ...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1879
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. 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
9. 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 comp...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1879
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. 1763.d.3(14a)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1763.d.3(14a)
- Title:
- Power of love. Falcke Collection. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Oval image. 'Oval bas-relief. Pale-green jasper, white relief...Length, 7⅛; height, 5½ inches...It was modelled in the autumn of 1776 from a gem in Sir Roger Newdegate's collection. The original was probably a Cinque-cento gem engraver's interpretation of an antique;...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1879
- Extent:
- 1 item