. 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 closing, to make theone general remark, that the services now made at Etruria,whether dinner, tea, dessert, or toilet—whether of the moreordinary descriptions for the million, or of the nioreelegant and costly for the few—are all thoroughly good,and all produced with that care and nicety which have evercharacterised the place and its proprietors. The markets to which the goods are sent are more w
. 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 closing, to make theone general remark, that the services now made at Etruria,whether dinner, tea, dessert, or toilet—whether of the moreordinary descriptions for the million, or of the nioreelegant and costly for the few—are all thoroughly good,and all produced with that care and nicety which have evercharacterised the place and its proprietors. The markets to which the goods are sent are more widelyspread than perhaps will be conceived by the uninitiated,and it is not too much to say, that, besides the home trade,which is very extensive, the Wedgwood ware of the 392 THE WEDGWOODS. present day is sent, as it used to be, to every quarter of the globe. In a former chapter I have given a view of one portion ofthe Etruria works—the Black Works, as that portionwas called—and I here re-introduce it, and at the same timeadd two others, for the purpose of giving my readers someidea of their extent and their general character. The first view which I give of these famed works shows. the front of the manufactory. In the foreground is thecanal—the canal carried out by the enterprising spirit ofWedgwood, and formed by the indomitable skill of Brindley—which passes close to the works; where there is, as willbe seen, excellent wharfage; it has branches opening directlyinto the manufactory itself, so that boats may be laden anddischarged with the greatest ease. To the left of the viewwill be seen the hovels and kilns ; and in the centre—the large pedimented building with the bell-turret—are theshow-rooms, the offices, the museum, &c.; and at the THE WORKS AT ETRURIA. 393 extreme end of the view, to the right, will be seen the lodge,&c. These works, it may be remembered, were planned andbuilt by the great Josiah, and possess, therefore, an unusualcfcoree of interest. T
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