Identifier: transferprinting00turn (find matches)
Title: Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, William, -1643
Subjects: Transfer-printing Pottery Enameled ware
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall New York : Keramic Studio Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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back to 1749) in finding out the methodof printing tiles and in making trials and experimentsfor that purpose. The Liverpool Guide ofj 1799states that Copper plate printing on china originatedhere (Liverpool) in 1752, and remained some time asecret with the inventors, Messrs. Sadler and Green.We have no confirmation of this date (1752) furtherthan the assertion of the writer, whereas the Affidavit * The word upwards may mean under or above seven years. Mr.Mayer cautiously says it was about 1750, when the idea was conceived. t Mr. Mayer (paper 1871 p. 60) quotes The Liverpool Guide of 1799.Jewitt in Ceramic Art of Great Britain gives the year 1790; and Chaffersin Marks and Monograms gives 1796 and 1799 at two different pages. TheGuide states china was printed upon in 1752, whereas the affidavit of1756 states earthenware tiles was the material. In Laurensons advertisement,however, the words porcelane, enammel, and earthenware are used as beingprinted on at Chelsea, etc. 4 Plate No. II.
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Fig. a 5. PLATE, PORCELAIN, RED PRINT.Bow Origin. or Application for the patent takes us back to 1749.There are no specimens extant of the productionsbetween 1752 and 1756, and no proof of any havingbeen made. The year 1752 may have been ascertainedfrom Guy Green himself. He retired from business in1799, but the writer for the Liverpool Guide ofthat year gives us no information on the point. Itseems, also, reasonable to suppose that as soon asSadler and Green had brought their system toperfection they would bring it before the public forthe purpose of making it a commercial success. Thiswas done on the 27th July, 1756. Up to that time, orshortly before, their experiments, as per affidavit, hadonly been experimental. Let us glance at a few factsof their history. John Sadler was the son of AdamSadler, printer. New Market, Liverpool. John servedhis apprenticeship with his father-^ to learn the Art ofEngraving. The son started business for himself as printer,etc., in Harrington Street, Li

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