This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... The figure seated on the ruins of a building appears to be the expression of whatever in human nature is subject to death. The languid attitude, the downward gaze, the inverted torch, the heap of ruins--all suggest failure, dissolution. The project of reproducing the famous vase had, at the time of the sale ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... The figure seated on the ruins of a building appears to be the expression of whatever in human nature is subject to death. The languid attitude, the downward gaze, the inverted torch, the heap of ruins--all suggest failure, dissolution. The project of reproducing the famous vase had, at the time of the sale of the Duchess of Portland's museum, been for some time entertained by Wedgwood. But the original was inaccessible to him and was likely to remain so during her life-time. With his usual happy daring, however, he prepared to do what he could with the published engravings of the vase, in particular with that given by Montfaucon in his VAnliquite expliquSe (1719). Pottery had become in Wedgwood's hands a medium of imitation far superior to engraving; he had, moreover, in his employ one of the first ceramic artists in Europe, Henry Webber; and he proceeded with high satisfaction, confident, as he later wrote to Hamilton, that he would at least equal the engraved vase. But work from an engraving was at best a makeshift; and when the death of the Duchess unexpectedly liberated her treasures, Wedgwood at once took steps to obtain access to the original, and if possible possession of it. In January 1786 he was in negotiation for its purchase, probably with the Duke himself, with whom he was on friendly terms and in frequent communication.1 The Duke, however, declined Wedgwood's offer, 1 "I have had very free and pretty long conversations upon the intended treaty the commercial treaty with France with the D. of Portland & Lord Stormont, both separately & together," Wedgwood writes to a correspondent (Archdeacon Clive), February 20, 1786, and a few weeks later (March 8) he speaks of a visit to the Duke as if it were no uncommon...
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Add this copy of The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter to cart. $37.95, very good condition, Sold by Daedalus Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1915 by MacMillan and Co..
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Very Good+ Clean blue original cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. Numerous B/W illustrations. Revised and edited by C. H. Herford. Personal and business life. Business; B&W illustrations; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 388 pages.
