IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71139 accession number: C.1012-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: John Brown stands with two small, black children. His right hand holds the raised hand of the girl, and rests on his hip; his left rests on the boy's shoulders. John Brown wears a long blue coat jacket, white trousers, black shoes and a green-shaded waistcoat which has brown edging and buttons. His hair is grey, with a moulded combed pattern, and he wears a full beard. The children stand against rocks; they are barefoot and wear white smocks, striped with pink. Their hair is black, the girl's long and the boy's short. The oval base is inscribed 'JOHN BROWN' in raised and gilded capitals on a straight ribbon; there is a gilt line to the left of the title and a small incised 'o' between the words; the top is moulded to suggest rough ground. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is flat, with vertical scoring in the clay and painting to the heads and the shoulders of the main figure. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue and with blue and with black, brown, grey, green, red, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr S. Fenton of Cranbourn Street, London. Bought in March 1909 for £1, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71139 PEOPLE ------------------- Brown, John SUBJECTS ------------------- American Civil War popular song TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue and with black, brown, grey, green, red, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is flat, with vertical scoring in the clay and painting to the heads and the shoulders of the main figure. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1859 - 1859 creation date earliest: 1859 creation date latest: 1859 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.5 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3.25 dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 13.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16 dimension: Width units: in value: 6.25 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Sampson Smith, manufacturer of all kinds if figures in great variety: a celebration Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1012_1928_1_201302_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 729 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1012_1928_1_201302_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 702 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1012_1928_1_201302_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 729 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1012_1928_1_201302_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 351 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1012_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 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