. 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. In illustration of this bill I give engravings of some ofFlaxmans i^roductions contained in its items. Of themedallions therein charged, I give those of Herschell, FLAXMAN S BAS-RELIEFS. 281 Buchan, Jcnlviiison, the King of Sweden, tlic Qnoen nlPortngal, Mr. and Mrs. Mecrman, and Mrs. Siddons. Tiieseform a remarkably cliaracteristic and interesting series of theworks of this great artist. Of bas-rel
. 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. In illustration of this bill I give engravings of some ofFlaxmans i^roductions contained in its items. Of themedallions therein charged, I give those of Herschell, FLAXMAN S BAS-RELIEFS. 281 Buchan, Jcnlviiison, the King of Sweden, tlic Qnoen nlPortngal, Mr. and Mrs. Mecrman, and Mrs. Siddons. Tiieseform a remarkably cliaracteristic and interesting series of theworks of this great artist. Of bas-reliefs, for nse in variousways, I also give engravings of the exquisite compositionsof Peace preventing Mars from bursting the Door of JanussTemple, for which Flaxman was paid fifteen guineas, and. Mercury uniting the Hands of England and France, forwhich he received thirteen guineas. The drawings for the manufacturers arms I take tohave been drawings of the arms of Wedgwood for a seal,and I am gratified in being able here to introduce an (En-graving of those arms as they appear on a seal f tlic 282 THE WEDGWOODS. celebrated basaltes, now in possession of Mr. W. R. Wedgwood. The arms of Wedgwood are:—guleSy fourmullets of five points and a canton, shield on this pretty little seal is highly-interesting, as showing these arms with thesame borne on an escutcheon of pretence;showing that the bearing was that of JosiahWedgwood, with that of his wife, Sarah,
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