The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . for the landscape painters purpose thanHampstead Heath and its vicinity, particularly that most de-lightful spot above described, where the Pottery stands, whichafforded the subject of the ensuing Plate. At this Pottery, which is placed in a sequestered dell, themoulds used by the sugar bakers for casting their loaves ofsugar in, are made. They are of different sizes, turned bythe moulder, with the assistance of a boy, who is employed inkeeping the lathe in motion. The clay is remarkably good,and bu
The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . for the landscape painters purpose thanHampstead Heath and its vicinity, particularly that most de-lightful spot above described, where the Pottery stands, whichafforded the subject of the ensuing Plate. At this Pottery, which is placed in a sequestered dell, themoulds used by the sugar bakers for casting their loaves ofsugar in, are made. They are of different sizes, turned bythe moulder, with the assistance of a boy, who is employed inkeeping the lathe in motion. The clay is remarkably good,and burns to a rich red colour. The foUovidng is a list of the places where sugar bakersmoulds are made, for they are not to be had at the Potteriesin general; viz. that above-mentioned, at Childs Hill, nearHampstead Heath, in the parish of Hendon; one at Brentford;one at Clapham; one at Greenwich; three at Deptford ; andtwo at Plumsted. Though the clay varies in texture, andlikewise in colour in some slight degree, when baked, onalmost every spot where a Pottery is erected, yet in no instance /8. 59 does it so peculiarly differ as at the Pottery in High Street,Lambeth, leading to Vauxhall. The clay principally used atthat place is preferred by the sculptors for their models ofbusts, figures, and monuments. It never stains the fingers,and is of so beautiful a texture that all parts of the modelmay be executed with it, in the most minute degree of sharp-ness and spirit; and, when baked, it is not of that fieryred colour, like a tile, but approaches nearer to the toneof flesh, has a beautiful bloom with it, and is very similar,though not quite so dark, as those fine specimens of Ter-racottas in the Towneley Gallery, in the British great sculptors Roubiliac and Rysbrach not only constantlypreferred it, but brought it into general use among the the Lambeth Pottery, the first imitations of the Dutchsquare white glazed tUes, decorated with figures of animalsand other
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