Author: Llewellynn Frederick William JewittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clay tobacco pipes
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Wedgwoods
Author: Llewellynn Frederick William JewittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clay tobacco pipes
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood, with memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire
Author: Llewellynn Frederick W. JewittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood; with Notices of His Works and Their Productions, Memoirs of the Wedgwood and Other Families, and a History of the Early Potteries of Staffordshire. With ... Illustrations
Author: Llewellynn Frederick William JEWITTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Radical Potter
Author: Tristram HuntPublisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250128358
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
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.
The Wedgwood Handbook
Author: Eliza MeteyardPublisher:
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Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Wedgwood Jasper Ware
Author: Michael HermanPublisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764319266
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For novice and moderately advanced collectors, mainly pieces produced from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Includes Wedgwood Jasper history, colors, marks and prices, and hundreds of illustrations.
The Story of Wedgwood
Author: Alison KellyPublisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN:
Category : Wedgwood ware
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Thirty Years War
Author: C. V. WedgwoodPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
Handbook to the Collection of British Pottery and Porcelain
Author: Museum of Practical Geology (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Glazing (Ceramics).
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S.
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wedgwood ware
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description