Wedgwood's Catalogue of Cameos, Intaglios, Medals, Bas-Reliefs, Busts, and Small Statues: Reprinted from the Edition of 1787

by Josiah Wedgwood, Eliza Meteyard (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108079808
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/30/2019
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.35(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Small cameos, intaglios or seals; 2. Large bas-reliefs, medallions, tablets, etc.; 3. Kings and queens, statesmen, etc.; 4. Ancient Roman history; 5. Roman heads; 6. The twelve Caesars, with their empresses; 7. The emperors to Constantine; 8. Heads of the popes; 9. Kings of England and France; 10. Heads of illustrious moderns; 11. Busts, statues, animals; 12. Lamps and candelabra; 13. Tea and coffee equipages, etc.; 14. Flower pots and root pots; 15. Ornamental vases; 16. Antique vases; 17. Vases, pateras, tablets, etc.; 18. Vases, tripods and other ornaments; 19. Ink vessels, etc.; 20. Thermometers.