Sujet

Statue of Wedgwood at the Wedgwood Memorial Institute, Burslem, 1873. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Statue of Wedgwood at the Wedgwood Memorial Institute, Burslem, 1873. '...the statue...is of rather more than lifesize, and...is executed in terra-cotta. The manufacture of these large pieces has been accomplished with singular success; and, considering the difficulties of manipulation and the dangers of unequal contraction under fire, great credit is reflected upon Mr. Blanchard and Mr. Blashfield who were intrusted with the work. It is remarkable that the different portions of this work have, in all the more important cases, been fired as they have left the modeller's hands, and they thus bear the direct impress of his skill, without any moulding, casting, or interposition of inferior workmen...The whole of these sculptures, from first to last, have been executed, at the National Training Schools connected with the South Kensington Museum, by three young modellers - Messrs. R. J. Morris, W. Wright, and J. F. Marsh - selected...from the schools of art in the Potteries. All the figure-subjects and the statue are the work exclusively of Mr. Morris, who has exhibited a high degree of talent'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A12_377

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

9,6Mo (672,1Ko) / 10,5cm x 22,8cm / 1244 x 2696 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people male event job man men arts statue statues sculpture art guy occupation British terracotta ceramic ceramics century Britain profession newspapers press print pottery concept manufacturer B&W full length potter full-length engraved engraving industrial revolution terra cotta manufacturers 19th century industrialist black & white black and white B W Institute 18th century abolitionist Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector abolition anti-slavery Illustrated London News wood engraving Josiah Wedgwood ILN newspaper portrait Unknown Wedgwood Josiah Josiah Wedgwood and Sons 19th-century Josiah Wedgewood The Illustrated London News Wedgwood Memorial Institute Rowland James Morris Morris Rowland James