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Did Benjamin Franklin invent transferware?
07/2010 | 1288 | 152
Pages: 464-469
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Author:
Erich, Wendy (Erich, Wendy)
Subjects
artists:
Franklin, Benjamin / Burdett, Peter Perez
artists:
Sadler, John, ceramicist, ca.1720-1789
artists:
Wright of Derby, Joseph, painter, 1734-1797
dates:
1770-1779
dates:
1760-1769
print:
Franklin, Benjamin
print:
Transferware
subjects:
Ceramics / Techniques / Correspondence / Prints
subjects:
Tiles
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. The Franklin bowl, attributed to Josiah Wedgwood. c.1777. Transfer-printed creamware, diameter 22.9 cm. (State Museum of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg).
Attributed works:
21. Peter Perez Burdett and his wife Hannah Burdett, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1765. Canvas, 145 by 205 cm. (National Museum of the Czech Republic, Prague).
Attributed works:
22. Benjamin Franklin, attributed to Robert Feke. 1738. Canvas, 127.5 by 101.9 cm. (Harvard University Portrait Collection, Cambridge MA).
Attributed works:
23. Folio illustration, engraved by P. Daret. From M. Le Roy de Gomberville: Moral Virtue, delineated, London 1726. Engraving, 16.5 by 22 cm. (Jefferson Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress, Washington DC).
Attributed works:
24. ‘He That Lives Well Conceals Not His Actions’, engraved by P. Daret. From M. Le Roy de Gomberville: Moral Virtue, delineated, London 1726, p.151. Engraving, 14 by 17.5 cm. (Jefferson Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress, Washington DC).
Attributed works:
25. Reconciliation of Franklin with his brother, attributed to Samuel Goodrich. From S. Goodrich: The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia 1836, p.69. Engraving, 7.5 by 5.5 cm. (Benjamin Franklin Collection, Rare Books, Library of Congress, Washington DC).
Attributed works:
26. Hearth tiles, by John Sadler at Jeremiah Lee Mansion, Marblehead MA. 1766–68. Tin-glazed earthenware. (Courtesy of Marblehead Museum and Historical Society; photograph by Marcia Hunkins).
Western art unattributed:
27. Delftware Bible hearth tiles at Stenton, Philadelphia PA. c.1730. (Courtesy of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania).