Josiah Wedgwood and His Pottery
Author : William Burton
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Staffordshire ware
ISBN :
Author : William Burton
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Staffordshire ware
ISBN :
Author : Tristram Hunt
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250128358
From one of Britain’s leading historians and the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a scintillating biography of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated eighteenth-century potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist Wedgwood’s pottery, such as his celebrated light-blue jasperware, is famous worldwide. Jane Austen bought it and wrote of it in her novels; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered hundreds of pieces for her palace; British diplomats hauled it with them on their first-ever mission to Peking, audaciously planning to impress China with their china. But the life of Josiah Wedgwood is far richer than just his accomplishments in ceramics. He was a leader of the Industrial Revolution, a pioneering businessman, a cultural tastemaker, and a tireless scientific experimenter whose inventions made him a fellow of the Royal Society. He was also an ardent abolitionist, whose Emancipation Badge medallion—depicting an enslaved African and inscribed “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”—became the most popular symbol of the antislavery movement on both sides of the Atlantic. And he did it all in the face of chronic disability and relentless pain: a childhood bout with smallpox eventually led to the amputation of his right leg. As historian Tristram Hunt puts it in this lively, vivid biography, Wedgwood was the Steve Jobs of the eighteenth century: a difficult, brilliant, creative figure whose personal drive and extraordinary gifts changed the way we work and live. Drawing on a rich array of letters, journals, and historical documents, The Radical Potter brings us the story of a singular man, his dazzling contributions to design and innovation, and his remarkable global impact.
Author : Mark Dodgson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199568901
This book demonstrates how innovation is used to create wealth, productivity growth, and improved quality of life
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1526755033
The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: “You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this.” —Kirkus Reviews Born in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When he started work, the local ware was either fairly rustic, or made to look a little more sophisticated by the addition of heavy glazes. He worked to produce a lighter colored body and to use designs made to appeal to aristocratic tastes, convinced that where they led the rapidly growing middle class would follow. The result was cream ware which, when a whole service was ordered by the royal family, was soon christened queens ware. But Wedgwood was a distinctive character for more reasons than his artistry. As a businessman, he adopted an early form of mass production, and is believed to be the inventor of many modern marketing techniques such as money-back guarantees and illustrated catalogs. He was also a passionate early abolitionist who used his company to promote the anti-slavery cause, and he pursued the study of chemistry in order to understand the science behind the potter’s art, eventually inventing a kiln thermometer. This fascinating biography brings to life a remarkable eighteenth-century figure.
Author : Josiah Wedgwood
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN :
Description: In this interesting address to the workmen in the pottery/porcelain trade, the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood attempts to dissuade skilled potters from taking employment abroad. Competition amongst porcelain manufactories was rife at the time, and this text provides an interesting insight into that trend.
Author : Tristram Hunt
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0241287901
*Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History, 2022* A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tristram Hunt Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in Stoke-on-Trent, he revolutionized the production of ceramics in Georgian Britain by marrying technology with design, manufacturing efficiency and retail flair. He transformed the luxury markets not only of London, Liverpool, Bath and Dublin but of America and the world, and helping to usher in a mass consumer society. Tristram Hunt calls him 'the Steve Jobs of the eighteenth century'. But Wedgwood was radical in his mind and politics as well as in his designs. He campaigned for free trade and religious toleration, read pioneering papers to the Royal Society and was a member of the celebrated Lunar Society of Birmingham. Most significantly, he created the ceramic 'Emancipation Badge', depicting a slave in chains and inscribed 'Am I Not a Man and a Brother?' that became the symbol of the abolitionist movement. Tristram Hunt's hugely enjoyable new biography, strongly based on Wedgwood's notebooks, letters and the words of his contemporaries, brilliantly captures the energy and originality of Wedgwood and his extraordinary contribution to the transformation of eighteenth-century Britain.
Author : Eliza Meteyard
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Potters
ISBN :
Author : T.J. Stiles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400031745
NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other individual to create modern capitalism. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, The First Tycoon describes an improbable life, from Vanderbilt’s humble birth during the presidency of George Washington to his death as one of the richest men in American history. In between we see how the Commodore helped to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation. Epic in its scope and success, the life of Vanderbilt is also the story of the rise of America itself.
Author : Brian Dolan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Potters
ISBN : 0007291639
This volume provides an examination of the life and times of Josiah Wedgwood, potter to the Queen, and an Enlightenment pioneer. Brian Dolan combines the remarkable story of Wedgwood with the story of the 18th-century world of industry, fashion and connoisseurship.
Author : Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.)
Publisher : ACC Distribution
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This collection of approximately fourteen hundred objects is a comprehensive compilation of most forms of Wedgwood's ware from the eighteenth century, and such rare pieces as the figure of Britannia, a medallion bearing the portrait of Sir William Hamilton and inscribed by Thomas Bentley, and a cream-ware cream cullier can be found in no other museum.