IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71185 accession number: C.1023A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The oval base is inscribed ‘SIR JOHN FRANKLIN’, painted in partly-incised gilt capitals with three gilt strokes to either side. The figure is mainly white, with features picked out in enamels and gilt. Sir John stands in front of a brown painted rock, on brown painted ground. He wears uniform, with medals, epaulets, gold buttons and bicorne (or cocked) hat; his collar and shoes are black. He carries a telescope which is coloured orange and grey with black bands. The back is moulded, with a vent hole 9cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded telescope, and lead glazed. Painted with brown, black, orange, grey and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Delves at Rye; bought as a pair with Lady Franklin, 14 November 1911 for 30 shillings, 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/71185 PEOPLE ------------------- Franklin, Lady Jane Franklin, John, Sir SUBJECTS ------------------- Ballad Discovery of North West Passage Tasmania telescope telescope TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded telescope, and lead-glazed. Painted with brown, black, orange, grey and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded, with a vent hole 9cm from the bottom. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Alpha factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3.125 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 10.75 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 4.5 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 A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain The Victorian Staffordshire Figure Staffordshire Figures Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Staffordshire Portrait Figures Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1023A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1023A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1023A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1023A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1023A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1023A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1023A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1023A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1023A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1023A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1023A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1023A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels