Two Herculaneum creamware plates, circa 1805
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Two Herculaneum creamware plates, circa 1805
Finely printed in black with a portrait of Nelson in military uniform, his vacant right sleeve hooked to the button of his coat, the rims picked out in black enamel, oval 26.8cm wide, circular 25cm diam, impressed HERCULANEUM (2)
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Norman Stretton Collection, Phillips, 21 February 2001, lot 230 (oval platter)
The portrait is a very close study of the drawing by Henry Edridge, which was much copied. It was engraved by William Evans and published in May 1798, less than a year after Nelson lost his arm aboard the Theseus at Tenerife. The portrait was most likely copied at Herculaneum by George Martin, who is listed as a 'Pottery Engraver' in the register of St Michaels-in-the-Hamlet Church in Toxteth. The same print is signed 'G. Martin Sculp.' on a jug illustrated by Alan Smith, Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery (1970), pl.36A. A similar plate can be seen in the Nelson Gallery at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Finely printed in black with a portrait of Nelson in military uniform, his vacant right sleeve hooked to the button of his coat, the rims picked out in black enamel, oval 26.8cm wide, circular 25cm diam, impressed HERCULANEUM (2)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Norman Stretton Collection, Phillips, 21 February 2001, lot 230 (oval platter)
The portrait is a very close study of the drawing by Henry Edridge, which was much copied. It was engraved by William Evans and published in May 1798, less than a year after Nelson lost his arm aboard the Theseus at Tenerife. The portrait was most likely copied at Herculaneum by George Martin, who is listed as a 'Pottery Engraver' in the register of St Michaels-in-the-Hamlet Church in Toxteth. The same print is signed 'G. Martin Sculp.' on a jug illustrated by Alan Smith, Liverpool Herculaneum Pottery (1970), pl.36A. A similar plate can be seen in the Nelson Gallery at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
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Two Herculaneum creamware plates, circa 1805
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