The Genius of Wedgwood
Author | : Josiah Wedgwood |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Josiah Wedgwood |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Hilary Young |
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Release | : 1996 |
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Total Pages | : 995 |
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Author | : Hilary Young |
Publisher | : ACC Distribution |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Josiah Wedgwood, one of the most remarkable men of his century, transformed British pottery from a cottage craft to a manufacturing industry with worldwide exports. At the heart of his achievement was his pioneering recognition that quality art and design would give Wedgwood wares their distinction. In an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of his death, the Victoria and Albert Museum has brought together for the first time more than 500 of the beautiful works and designs created in Josiah Wedgwood's lifetime - many of them never exhibited before. They include a magnificent selection of pieces from the famous Frog Service, commissioned by Catherine the Great and sent to Russia in 1774. The Genius of Wedgwood introduces and explains in detail every item in the exhibition and contains contributions by leading Wedgwood experts from Britain and Russia. Illustrated with 50 colour and 140 black and white photographs, it is a unique portrait of the man and his work.
Author | : Tristram Hunt |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250128358 |
From one of Britain’s leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist Wedgwood’s pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking, audaciously planning to impress China with their china. But the life of Josiah Wedgwood is far richer than just his accomplishments in ceramics. He was a leader of the Industrial Revolution, a pioneering businessman, a cultural tastemaker, and a tireless scientific experimenter whose inventions made him a fellow of the Royal Society. He was also an ardent abolitionist, whose Emancipation Badge medallion—depicting an enslaved African and inscribed “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”—became the most popular symbol of the antislavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. And he did it all in the face of chronic disability and relentless pain: a childhood bout with smallpox eventually led to the amputation of his right leg. As historian Tristram Hunt puts it in this lively, vivid biography, Wedgwood was the Steve Jobs of the eighteenth century: a difficult, brilliant, creative figure whose personal drive and extraordinary gifts changed the way we work and live. Drawing on a rich array of letters, journals, and historical documents, The Radical Potter brings us the story of a singular man, his dazzling contributions to design and innovation, and his remarkable global impact.
Author | : Eliza Meteyard |
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Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Potters |
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Author | : Eliza Meteyard |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2015-09-21 |
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ISBN | : 9781343452923 |
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Author | : Samuel Smiles |
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Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Wedgwood ware |
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Author | : Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2012-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781290435536 |
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