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Auction 159 6 Mar 2021
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Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood, Esqr.
Stubbs, George Townly [after George Stubbs]. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD, ESQR. DONE FROM AN ORIGINAL PICTURE PRINTED IN ENAMEL AS LARGE AS LIFE. London: Published February 10, 1795 by George Townly Stubbs, No. 86 High Street, Marybone. Tinted stipple engraved print, signed George Stubbs pinxt. / Geo: Townley Stubbs, sculpt. Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales. Paper measuring 21.5 by 16 cm, matted within an older (later 19th-century?) black and gilt wood frame with modern backing, measuring 26.5 by 21 cm. Fine. Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) is perhaps the greatest English potter of all time, known for bringing the principles of the Industrial Age to the manufacture of pottery and related art forms. Numismatists have long been enamored of his portrait medallions, many of them created by artist John Flaxman, Jr. (1755–1826) using Wedgwood's processes. This engraving of Wedgwood is based upon a 1780 painting of him by George Stubbs (1724–1806); Stubbs's son George Townly Stubbs (1756–1815) produced the engraving.
Stubbs, George Townly [after George Stubbs]. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD, ESQR. DONE FROM AN ORIGINAL PICTURE PRINTED IN ENAMEL AS LARGE AS LIFE. London: Published February 10, 1795 by George Townly Stubbs, No. 86 High Street, Marybone. Tinted stipple engraved print, signed George Stubbs pinxt. / Geo: Townley Stubbs, sculpt. Engraver to His R.H. the Prince of Wales. Paper measuring 21.5 by 16 cm, matted within an older (later 19th-century?) black and gilt wood frame with modern backing, measuring 26.5 by 21 cm. Fine. Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) is perhaps the greatest English potter of all time, known for bringing the principles of the Industrial Age to the manufacture of pottery and related art forms. Numismatists have long been enamored of his portrait medallions, many of them created by artist John Flaxman, Jr. (1755–1826) using Wedgwood's processes. This engraving of Wedgwood is based upon a 1780 painting of him by George Stubbs (1724–1806); Stubbs's son George Townly Stubbs (1756–1815) produced the engraving.