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Henry Woodward as 'The Fine Gentleman' in Lethe
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Engraver:
Mosely, Charles
(After)
Painter:
Worlidge, Thomas
(After)
Soft-paste porcelain figure of Henry Woodward as 'The Fine Gentleman' in Lethe.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded and hand-modelled, with clear, iron-speckled glaze. The figure is on a shallow square base with cut-corners, decorated with an incised diamond diaper pattern, and having at centre back a broken pedestal with a stepped base. The underside of the base is rough and has a deep depression under the pedestal. The edges have been flattened and wiped free of glaze; the central area is glazed. The actor is clean-shaven and has long hair drawn into a waist-length queue with a bow at the bottom. He stands with his feet wide apart, the left behind the right, and his hands concealed beneath the uplifted skirts of his waistcoat. He wears a tricorn hat with fringing at the corners, a full-skirted coat, a long waistcoat trimmed with bobbles, shoes with straps and buckles, and a low-slung sword.
History note: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 21 March 1917 for £125 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 12.3 cm
Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 11.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
: The figure of Woodward is usually dated c. 1750 because an example in the Untermyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is dated '1750', that date also occurs on the Fitzwilliam's Kitty Clive on a high base, EC.3-1938.
The actor Henry Woodward (b.1717, d.1777), joined the cast of Garrick's farce Lethe as 'The Fine Gentleman' . The Bow model of Henry Woodward derived from a mezzotint of 1750 by Charles Mosely, traditionally said to be after a water-colour drawing by Thomas Worlidge
Details
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded and hand-modelled, with clear, iron-speckled glaze
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3026B-1928
Primary reference Number: 41511
Old object number: 4491A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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