IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76502 accession number: C.991-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 18 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware figure of the actor John Liston in character, He wears a black conical hat with a red band over a lawyer’s wig; his clothes are black, with a white bow at the neck, a red belt and black shoes with red rosettes. He holds a scroll in both hands (broken off) and his head is turned to the left, as if in proclamation. He stands against a short, square marbled post, on a square white base which carried the transferred inscription: ‘Read it indeed : that’s very easily said, read it! The back is fully modeled and painted. The underside of the base is recessed and glazed. object type: Earthenware figure, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA (1834-1925) of 37 St George’s Road, S.W.. Bought at Christie’s on 24 January 1908, lot 14, by Mr Thomas Sutton of Eastbourne for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. This and a similar but differently-coloured figure were bought for £6.6s (six pound six shillings). 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/76502 PEOPLE ------------------- Liston, John Van Dunder TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Enoch Wood DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Base units: cm value: 6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the earthenware collection of Staffordshire ware formed during the past forty years by Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W. Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era The Richard Bebb Collection in the Garrick Club, A Catalogue of Figures, Sculpture and Paintings Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 14th June 1988, Early English and Continental Ceramics Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 11th October 1995, English and Continental Ceramics Sotheby’s Sale Catalogue, 27nd July 1976 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_991_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_991_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_991_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_991_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_991_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_991_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_991_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_991_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels