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Description: | Each with impressed title and impressed 'Wedgwood & Bentley' mark to the reverse.
Twenty-one Wedgwood and Bentley black basaltes Portrait Medallions of English Poets. As listed in the 1779 Wedgwood and Bentley catalogue, class X ('Heads of illustrious Moderns, from Chaucer to the present time'), Section I, comprising: Addison, Beaumont, Butler, Chaucer, Congreve, Cowley, Dryden, Gower, Fletcher, Johnson, Lansdown, Milton, Oldham, Otway, Alex, Pope, Prior, Rochester, Sidney, Surrey, Swift and Waller.
Material: Basaltes | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.415071 | Go to resource |
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