Wedgwood's Catalogue of Cameos, Intaglios, Medals, Bas-Reliefs, Busts, and Small Statues : Reprinted from the Edition of 1787 Paperback / softback
by Josiah Wedgwood
Edited by Eliza Meteyard
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture series
Paperback / softback
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This fascinating 1873 publication is a version of the catalogue produced by the Wedgwood company almost one hundred years earlier, in 1787.
Its editor, the feminist writer Eliza Meteyard (1816–79), was a friend of the Wedgwood/Darwin families, and had published a two-volume biography of Josiah Wedgwood in 1865.
She explains in her preface that the sixth (and last) such catalogue of Wedgwood's lifetime, 'having been long out of print … is thus verbally reprinted, without other alteration than a few press corrections and the insertion of various illustrations from the Life of Wedgwood'.
A brief history of the catalogues is provided, followed by a long list of the cameos, intaglios, figurines, vases and dinner, tea and coffee services which the firm offered.
Wedgwood also advised on how to form a collection of cameos, which are listed by subject: sets containing Greek gods, or kings of France, or popes were available.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages, 3 Plates, black and white; 45 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2019
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- ISBN:9781108079808
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:128 pages, 3 Plates, black and white; 45 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:30/05/2019
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- ISBN:9781108079808
