. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. thers, John, Josiah, and Thomas.* The little ghl I havespoken of as drawing a childs carriage, is Catherine, andthe two little ones who are seated in the carriage are Sarahand Mary Anne, the two youngest members of the family. The third of these is an enamel as large as life, paintedby George Stubbs. It is a fine three-quarter head, in bag-wig and grey collarless coat, and is, I apprehend, of aboutt
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. thers, John, Josiah, and Thomas.* The little ghl I havespoken of as drawing a childs carriage, is Catherine, andthe two little ones who are seated in the carriage are Sarahand Mary Anne, the two youngest members of the family. The third of these is an enamel as large as life, paintedby George Stubbs. It is a fine three-quarter head, in bag-wig and grey collarless coat, and is, I apprehend, of aboutthe same period as the earlier medallions. From thispainting a tinted stipple-print was engraved by GeorgeTownley Stubbs, and published by him on February 10th, * Richard, the second son, having died in 1782, is of course not in-cluded in this faniih^ picture. BUSTS, ETC., OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. 373 1795, the month following the death of Wedgwood. Thisprint is now rare. Turning from painting to sculpture, the admirable bnstof Josiah Wedgwood, on his monmnent at Stoke-upon-Trent,remains to be noticed. This bnst, which is a three-qnarterfaced portrait, will be seen represented on the accompanying. eno-ravino-. It is sculptured in white marble, and is evidentlyan admirable and truthful likeness. Of later sculptured representations of the Mher ofpotters, the most notable are, undoubtedly, the memorialstatue, by Gibson, which has been erected at Stoke, andthe splendid bust, by Fontana, which has been liberallypresented, by Mr. Mayer, to the new Wedgwood MemorialInstitute at Burslem. CHAPTER XXL CHILDEEN OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD AND THEIR ALLIANCES—THEIR DESCENDANTS.—DARWINs ORIGIN OF SPECIES. —JOHN WEDGWOOD. LETTER OF JOSIAH WEDGWOOD.— THOMAS WEDGWOOD. — SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE—GENEROUS HELP ACCORDED TO HIM BY THE BROTHERSWEDGWOOD.—THOMAS WEDGWOODs RESEARCHES INTO THEPROPERTIES OF LIGHT,—DISCOVERS PHOTOGRAPHY.—SIRHUMPHREY DAVY.—JOSIAH WEDGWOOD THE SECOND.—WARWITH FRANCE
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