1592996638000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76271 1755194542327 1714469839000 1755194515997 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76271 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76271 61153fbd-b0c2-3f32-ba54-0cebe7fc55b6 6 person reference agent-161233 adlib-agent-161233 460e6f07-164b-3841-8cf4-44d672149ea4 Watch, Will reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware black, brown, grey, blue, green, yellow, red, dark pink and flesh-pink enamels reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding reference term-98112 adlib-term-98112 32d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139 portrait Applied Arts White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right hand, and lead glazed. Painted with black, brown, grey, blue, green, yellow, red, dark pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. A man stands holding a shotgun in his left hand and a pistol in his right, a package under his right arm. He leans towards his left and is supported by a pile of three barrels. The lower part of the figure is well coloured; above, it is mainly white with gilt and enamel decoration. He wears: a white jacket and shirt, edged in gilt and open at the neck; yellow breeches, decorated with a fine pattern of green spots surrounded by tiny red spots; dark pink stockings, finely painted in light and dark pink; black boots with red-brown tops; a red-brown and green checked sash; and a wide-brimmed hat with feathers, two pink and one blue. The barrels are grey, with bands of blue and gilt. The base is rectangular, extended to the back right, with ‘WILL WATCH’ in raised gilt capitals above a gilt line to the front. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded but undecorated, with a triangular vent hole 10 cm from the bottom. C.878-1984 1 accession number C.878-1984 76271 priref 76271 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76271 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76271 ‘WILL WATCH’ in raised gilt capitals above a gilt line front of the base moulded and painted in gilt WILL WATCH title reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Mrs J E Cameron 1984, from the collection of the late Col R G Turner reference agent-155987 adlib-agent-155987 e436f445-fa38-38a0-bdfd-83e40b0508c9 Cameron, J.E., Mrs 1984 1984 1984 given Entry date: 1984-10-22 1850 1850 CE 1850 circa 1850 1865 1 1865 CE 1865 circa 1865 production reference agent-187914 adlib-agent-187914 3ff8e302-3ac3-3560-9a60-800ee4445118 Unidentified factory The flattened but moulded back, combined with the use of underglaze blue on similar models, suggests this figure was made mid-period, perhaps.1850-1865. The painting of the stockings is unusual, and similar to that found on figures which may have been made by John and Rebecca Lloyd, but Lloyd figures were usually modelled and decorated in the round and the Lloyd factory closed around 1852. A larger factory making figures from the 1850s onwards was Sampson Smith; but although this is a large figure and a simple three-part moulding, like many Sampson Smith-attributed figures, the base and complex outline are untypical. So it is likely that this figure was made by another, perhaps smaller, manufacturer. ‘Will Watch’, a legendary Sussex smuggler, was the hero of several Victorian broadside ballads. Will died at sea in a fight with other smugglers and, as an 1820s ballad records, was buried in an unmarked grave: ‘Where Will Watch, the bold smuggler/ that famed lawless fellow/ Once feared - now forget - / sleeps in peace with the dead’. The figure is perhaps a theatrical portrait: a performance of ‘Will Watch’ , by J H Amherst, took place at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 3 January 1925, and was no doubt repeated in later years. reference term-109672 adlib-term-109672 a788e98b-c8a4-313c-9617-1a812228e864 19th Century, Mid reference term-15214 adlib-term-15214 744af2c4-a2f2-37ad-bbf4-2cd00e91ed9b Victorian reference term-107611 adlib-term-107611 790e5a19-a186-34d5-a16e-2d8dff9f6247 white earthenware reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Depth cm 11.5 Depth in 4.5 Height cm 39 Height in 15.375 Width cm 19.1 Width in 7.5 reference media-47300 adlib-media-47300 fc44097c-37dd-3b75-9dd3-5641f5586631 jpeg aa/aa2/C_878_1984_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1702926637460 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/mid_C_878_1984_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1702926637460 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/C_878_1984_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1702926637460 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/preview_C_878_1984_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1702926637460 1 image 0 media image reference media-47301 adlib-media-47301 42f69166-ecdb-3e7c-ab69-7fdcd39788af jpeg aa/aa2/C_878_1984_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1702926611223 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/mid_C_878_1984_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1702926611223 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/C_878_1984_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1702926611223 1 image jpeg aa/aa2/preview_C_878_1984_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1702926611223 1 image 1 media image reference term-107454 adlib-term-107454 6ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20 figure category reference term-130674 adlib-term-130674 2728ba11-801b-318a-8f24-c6f4b99f08e3 Victorian Staffordshire figure category reference term-130678 adlib-term-130678 c683fbc6-ba3a-3ab1-b2f5-41493ff3588d flat-backed figure category history note From the collection of the late Colonel R.G. Turner. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Cf. Pl. I 14, fig. 29: a very similar figure, 14 in, and similarly decorated but for the jacket and the top of the base, which are painted, and the inscription, which is on a small ribbon. Also, p.254, Plates C2 and C3: two apparently identical figures, similar to this though in different pose and differently decorated; one of these is titled ‘Will Watch’ and the other ‘Jean Bart’; an engraving of a statue of Jean Bart at Dunkirk (Plate C4) appears to be the source. Also, p.611, several other versions of the ‘Will Watch’ figure. pp. 251, 611,633 reference publication-3585 adlib-publication-3585 784308ef-9535-3132-970c-45af8a273a64 Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Cf. Fig.1121: a very similar figure, 14 in, and similarly decorated but for: the jacket, painted in underglaze blue: the top of the base, painted in a combed pattern of brown and green; and the inscription on a small ribbon. Also several other versions of the ‘Will Watch’ figure. 332 reference publication-7227 adlib-publication-7227 6dc55e19-7dee-3713-a8a4-c81f86e35351 Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters Ref. attributes a ‘Will Watch’ figure to Sampson Smith, but this refers to another figure, much closer to the known Samspon Smith style (see Pugh, p.610). 90 reference publication-7294 adlib-publication-7294 a2893bb2-7aa7-3a6e-95ab-99961cb71c2a Sampson Smith, manufacturer of all kinds if figures in great variety: a celebration reference publication-7217 adlib-publication-7217 c1860f2b-473e-3562-a129-4344ff68ed22 Staffordshire Portrait Figures reference term-15214 adlib-term-15214 744af2c4-a2f2-37ad-bbf4-2cd00e91ed9b Victorian

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figure White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right hand, and lead glazed. Painted with black, brown, grey, blue, green, yellow, red, dark pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded but undecorated, with a triangular vent hole 10 cm from the bottom. in three parts, with subsiduiary reference term-120085 adlib-term-120085 68c62b7c-aaf4-38a5-a1be-4d6c615c0714 press-moulding reference term-120062 adlib-term-120062 d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206 lead-glazing object OBJECT