1592984171000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-11974 1768932183162 1738576975000 1768932180837 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-11974 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11974 59b1a74c-3cfe-3dd7-bae3-adb3dc14368a 15 reference agent-182420 adlib-agent-182420 46594bb7-28b9-306a-a3c1-58e66820e2c4 Darwin, Robert reference agent-182419 adlib-agent-182419 7e144e2c-aae9-3198-b08e-016aaa6144a0 Darwin, Susannah reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware pale terracotta reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel reference term-39593 adlib-term-39593 e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312d gold Decoration in pale terracotta and gold reference term-120086 adlib-term-120086 cdecca31-5ec3-3fe3-9e5d-455d9771fda5 painting overglaze reference term-120102 adlib-term-120102 02b9d189-d17a-37b4-ab50-5b6f2bc2fcf1 transfer-printing underglaze reference term-115 adlib-term-115 94d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8 Nature Applied Arts Earthenware plate printed and painted with 'Brown Water Lily' pattern White earthenware printed underglaze in brown, painted overglaze in pale terracotta enamel and gilt. Circular with sloping rim, shallow well and flat centre. Decorated in the centre with 'Brown Water Lily' pattern, comprising on the left, Nymphaea stellata, on the right, Nymphaea lotus, and in the middle, Nelumbium speciosum (Nelumbo nucifera). On the rim, a border of overlapping circles and a gold band. 29 reference exhibition-2113 adlib-exhibition-2113 c8fce4d0-140e-384a-8a08-7d49c6b4dfd2 Endless Forms, Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts C.3-1988 1 accession number C.3-1988 11974 priref 11974 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11974 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11974 on the base impressed WEDGWOOD, 1 and slightly above to right, 1 factory mark reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by George Pember Darwin reference agent-152829 adlib-agent-152829 08c3fe1e-3e6f-3f87-b00e-d88900bf86b5 Darwin, George Pember 1988 1988 1988-03-14 given on loan since 1963 1807 1807 CE 1807 circa 1807 1808 1 1808 CE 1808 1808 factory reference agent-152747 adlib-agent-152747 1d15ae53-9c39-3347-b432-d92e8e86a2f4 Wedgwood & Byerley The Brown Water Lily service was not designed specially for Susannah and Robert Darwin, but became known as the 'Darwin Service' because of theirs, which was ordered in 1807 and it had been received by 29 March 1808 as recorded in a letter from Susannah Darwin to her brother Josiah II (L.2.2.35). It had 150 pieces of which 129 are known, including 57 10 in plates (i.e. 9 7/8 in). There are plates in the British Museum (1887,0307,1.795), and the Victoria & Albert Museum (C.139-1963) and( Wedgwood Collection WE.4043-2014). This pattern was no. 495 in the first Wedgwood Pattern Book, described as 'Brown printed Water Lily, shaded in red and cut up with gold, and gold outside edge'. It was the first printed botanical pattern to be produced at Etruria, following a decision to introduce underglaze printed ware in March 1805. The earliest invoice for engraving the plates was from Semei Bourne for a pickle saucer in 1806, and most of the designs for the prints for the dinner service were engraved by John Robinson in 1807. The water lilies were based on the following illustrations: The Botanists' Repository, vol. VI, October 1803, pl. 330, Nymphaea stellata; The Botanical Magazine, December 1804, pl. 797, Nymphaea lotus; The Botanists' Repository, vol. VI, September 1804, pl. 391, Nymphaea lotus; The Botanical Magazine, February 1806, pl. 903a & b, Nelumbium speciosum. This and a few other botanical patterns, such as Peony (see C.864-1984) appear to have been introduced at Etruria because of John Wedgwood's interested in botany, and after he withdrew from the firm in 1812, they were not continued. reference term-106498 adlib-term-106498 272179a1-524b-3f36-aab7-bf342ce484d6 19th Century, Early reference term-107437 adlib-term-107437 96f4b0d1-fc11-39ff-ae91-1b23d888d479 George III reference term-113623 adlib-term-113623 87ef9eaf-54a8-3838-8337-94dbf03aad62 literal England England country Etruria 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 Diameter cm 24.8 Height cm 2.4 reference media-200406 adlib-media-200406 98fe0e47-cb51-3cb2-a15b-1cf40d2afb3d jpeg aa/aa35/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 930 width pixels 1024 1702926673679 1 image jpeg aa/aa35/mid_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 454 width pixels 500 1702926673679 1 image jpeg aa/aa35/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 930 width pixels 1024 1702926673679 1 image jpeg aa/aa35/preview_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc2.jpg 1 height pixels 227 width pixels 250 1702926673679 1 image 0 media image reference media-1080221422 portfolio portfolio-media-1080221422 8f872749-b7ce-3394-8b34-78642b06bc16 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/322/807/large_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 930 width pixels 1024 1511575961000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/322/807/mid_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 454 width pixels 500 1511575961000 1 image C.3-1988_200807_adn21_mas.tif 1511575961000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/322/807/preview_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 227 width pixels 250 1511575961000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/322/807/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.ptif 1 height pixels 3408 width pixels 3754 1511575961000 1 image 1 media image reference media-2506557423 portfolio portfolio-media-2506557423 9f9ea11a-8b86-3cdd-920b-6617d3bc895a jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/large_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.jpg 1 height pixels 976 width pixels 1024 1550048009000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/mid_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.jpg 1 height pixels 476 width pixels 500 1550048009000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.jpg 1 height pixels 3408 width pixels 3577 1550048009000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/preview_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.jpg 1 height pixels 238 width pixels 250 1550048009000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.ptif 1 height pixels 3408 width pixels 3577 1550048009000 1 image 2 media image reference media-2932050693 portfolio portfolio-media-2932050693 56bafd0d-57f9-30f5-9ad5-bfdf635c0f36 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/44/168/large_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 930 width pixels 1024 1695947413000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/44/168/mid_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 454 width pixels 500 1695947413000 1 image C.3-1988_200807_adn21_mas.tif 1695947413000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/44/168/preview_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 227 width pixels 250 1695947413000 1 image 3 media image reference term-34935 adlib-term-34935 b6750733-fe79-33fc-b39a-c296fcd223b4 plate history note Robert Waring Darwin, FRS (1766-1848) and his wife, Susannah (née Wedgwood, d. 1817), Shrewsbury; by descent in the Darwin family to George Pember Darwin (1928-2001), by whom lent to the Fitzwilliam in 1963. 1 same pattern reference object-11971 adlib-object-11971 823c9312-8845-37fd-b3ae-f2da923d4c7a

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plate reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. p. 36, fig. 41, and checklist of exhibits, p. 320, no. 29. See p. 36, fig. 40 for an illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine; Or, The Flower-Garden Displayed, vol. 23, Feb. 1806, pl. 903: fold-out of Nelumbium speciosum. Sacred Bean of India, etching printed in colours with additional hand colouring, by F. Sansom from a drawing by Sydenham Edwards. 320 reference publication-6545 adlib-publication-6545 0050e0fe-9fe4-31ad-85cf-045e56db43ef Endless Forms, Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts reference publication-1054 adlib-publication-1054 c1ab34af-0dc3-32a6-ac9c-8a449cefb2af Botanists' Repository reference publication-1056 adlib-publication-1056 2e4cd950-ba8e-3ca9-998e-29fbf5f12717 Botanical Magazine Ref. For the pattern see, pp. 69-90, especially pp. 81-2 and 83-90; a plate is illustrated, pl. 11, fig. 3. pp. 69-90 reference publication-200000487 adlib-publication-200000487 351c14d3-11b5-3279-9f5b-3f1730b3408c The Darwin Service and the First Printed Floral Patterns at Etruria Cf. A plate from the Darwin service, given to A.W. Franks by Dr Joseph Hooker (1817-1911), Director of Kew Gardens, and a friend of Charles Darwin, is in the British Museum, see, p. 128 and colour pl. 14a. (1887,0307,1.795) p. 128 reference publication-983 adlib-publication-983 1c545f5a-e608-3ef1-9413-4da3a71abcd8 Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum Cf. A plate of Brown Water Lilly, in the Wedgwood Museum, p. 332, pl. 464, dated to c. 1808. p. 332 reference publication-998 adlib-publication-998 b78305dd-313b-343d-b005-05a294d9dc50 Wedgwood Cf. Two plates of the same pattern, c. 1810, p. 280, no. 478 & p.158, colour pl. 146, right. p. 280 reference publication-985 adlib-publication-985 a173a766-74f2-3d47-ad14-666e514e75e5 Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels Cf. Three dishes of Brown Water Lilly, p. 456, dated to c. 1820. p. 456 reference publication-989 adlib-publication-989 82f5fd49-f1cd-3039-8aa9-a46ef3f93b0c Wedgwood, The New Illustrated Dictionary Ref. Reprint from Old Wedgwood, 1945, pp. 86-93 6-8 reference publication-200001258 adlib-publication-200001258 d34ab914-e7d0-3bac-8508-7462ae507bf7 Dr Darwin's Lotus Dessert Service reference term-19072 adlib-term-19072 154a3e08-d436-3d9b-9487-c6abd89a7edd botanical reference term-23809 adlib-term-23809 a795e265-f702-3163-b5f8-2b980abc404a botany plant reference term-106861 adlib-term-106861 6060bc54-868e-3457-9d72-7578ceda59a5 water-lily literal water-lily water-lily

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plate Earthenware printed underglaze in brown, painted overglaze in pale terracotta enamel and gilt. reference term-111179 adlib-term-111179 be5c887b-c0ed-3d89-82b2-c3a870e72a68 moulding reference term-120062 adlib-term-120062 d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206 lead-glazing object OBJECT