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Description: | Artist: Barnard, Frederick, decorator - British artist, 1846-1896; Date(s): circa 1880; Classification(s): lead-glazed earthenware, tile, industrial forming, industrially produced, dust-pressed, white earthenware, lead-glazed, and painted with brown enamel; Acquisition: bequeathed by Barnard, Dorothy, 1949 [C.5A-1949]
Description: One of a set of seven tiles. Industrially produced, dust-pressed, white earthenware with an impressed diamond pattern on the back. Painted overglaze with brown enamel. The design is a caricature of a contemporary artist. Charles Green (1840-1898). Man with short hair and a beard holding a shield inscribed 'CG', smoking a pipe, riding astride a large dog jumping over the sun. Label on back of tile inscribed 'CHARLES GREEN (ARTIST). BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATOR.' | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | lead-glazed earthenware Barnard, Frederick tile | Temporal: | name=late 19th Century; start=1880; end=1880 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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