Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom . obertHancock, and his assistants, produced some fine workafter Paul Ferg, Panini, Pesne, Watteau, Pillement,Gainsborough, Roubiliac, Boucher, and fine specimen of Hancocks work is illustratedin the portrait of Frederick the Great after Pesne,(Fig. A 13). Wedgwood attempted the same sortof thing with his Queens ware. Meteyard saysthat he employed William Blake to illustrate hiscatalogue, several of which he published. His planwas to have a small box of specimen pieces of ware,a
Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom . obertHancock, and his assistants, produced some fine workafter Paul Ferg, Panini, Pesne, Watteau, Pillement,Gainsborough, Roubiliac, Boucher, and fine specimen of Hancocks work is illustratedin the portrait of Frederick the Great after Pesne,(Fig. A 13). Wedgwood attempted the same sortof thing with his Queens ware. Meteyard saysthat he employed William Blake to illustrate hiscatalogue, several of which he published. His planwas to have a small box of specimen pieces of ware,accompanied by a catalogue and a little book of * Antoine Pesne (1684-1759) was born at Paris and died at Berlin. Hebecame Court Painter to Frederick the Great. His work was much admired bythe connoisseurs at the Prussian Court. He painted Frederick when a child, asthe Drummer Boy ; painted him again as Prince-Royal when a young man;and he painted him later on as King, together with the Queen, to form part of afresco. Carlyle says that Pesne was a man of great skill with his brush. 104 Plate No. Fig. DIO. PLATE, PORCELAIN, BLUE PRINTGrainger. Lee & Co.
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