. 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. such unmerciful ones are worn, that a little mans shouldersare perfectly covered with black satin. When fashion had changed, when the bag wig was dis-carded, and the coat assumed its deep collar, the nextmedallion was evidently prepared, and bore the admirableprofile which I engrave on the next page. The few yearsthat had intervened, too, had, besides changing the fashionof the garments and of the h
. 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. such unmerciful ones are worn, that a little mans shouldersare perfectly covered with black satin. When fashion had changed, when the bag wig was dis-carded, and the coat assumed its deep collar, the nextmedallion was evidently prepared, and bore the admirableprofile which I engrave on the next page. The few yearsthat had intervened, too, had, besides changing the fashionof the garments and of the hair, deepened the features ofthe great man, and given to them even a more solid 366 THE WEDGWOODS. thoiiglitfalness andnevolence than theyproportionately, andpoints were caughtthe new medallionfingers of Flaxman. an air of greater kindliness and be- had before. The figure, too, had growD had become more portly ; and all these by the quick eye, and presented in by the almost magically manipulative This medallion, which is the one best. known to collectors, is still produced by Messrs. Wedgwoodin their finest jasper ware. The two profiles which I havejust given have been engraved to illustrate Mr. Gladstones Wedgwood: An Address.* And I have to express myobligations to Mr. Murray for his courtesy in giving me thefree use of these two admirable eno-ravino-s. O O * London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1863. MEDALLION PORTRAITS OP WEDGWOOD. 367 The next medallion of wliich I give an illustration isundoubtedly of an earlier date than the last; it is of greatrarity, and has never before been engraved. The accom-panying illustration is drawn from an example in the pos-session of my friend, Dr. Barnard Davis ; and a similar onemay be seen in Mr. Mayers museum, Liverpool. On this,Wedgwood is represented in a bag wig, frilled shirt, andcollared coat, and an ermine mantle is thrown over the lower
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