Josiah Wedgwood

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Stamped verso: WEDGWOOD WEDGWOOD and BB599.

This portraitback to top

A cast made in 1922. Original examples are in the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, and the Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent (R. Reilly and G. Savage, Wedgwood the Portrait Medallions, 1973, pp 333-34).

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Bust length to left in full-bottomed wig.

Provenanceback to top

Presented by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons 1922.

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Regency Portraits, Kenwood, 1986.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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