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
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ramic Art of Great.Britain, p. 327, states that Burdett introducedaquatints as transfer prints to pottery, and that heworked for Wedgwood. Also, that he worked at theLiverpool Potteries in company with Paul Sandbyand William Roscoe, the famous art critic. Theobvious inference is that Frederick the Great had notaccepted the offer, but that Wedgwood had. It seems,however, impossible, so far, to get a trace of a specimenanywhere, although diligent search has been made forone. Another inference is that Burdett had gainedhis knowledge from Paul Sandby, who must haveintroduced the aquatint from France into Englandprevious to 1773. A notice of aquatint as a transferprint occurs in Marks and Monograms (Chaffers,1874, p. 739) which states that James Pennington,son of John Pennington, potter, at Liverpool, wasapprenticed in 1784 to Josiah Wedgwood to learn theart of engraving in aquatint. Of course Wedgwoodcould only want such an agent to transfer theaquatints on to his wares. 102 Plate No. XL.
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Fig. D 9. PLATE, EARTHENWARE, BLUE PRINT.Don. The Aquatint Process. Concerning the introduction of aquatint properinto England, Bryans Dictionary of Engravers, p. 444,Vol. II, has it that Paul Sandby was the first to use ithere, but he had the recipe from the Hon. CharlesGreville who had purchased it from Le Prince, aFrench artist. In Chambers Cyclopaedia, Vol. IV.,p. 382, we are informed that Paul Sandby publishedhis aquatint sketches in 1780:—Views in theEncampments in the Parks. He must have receivedthe knowledge of it years before that, and probablycommunicated it to Burdett in 1773, or previously. 103 TRANSFER PRINTING On Enamels, Porcelain and Pottery. AFTER THE MASTERS. ONE of the points held in view in this enquirywas to ascertain and, if possible, get illustra-tions of transfer printing on ware whichmight fairly be called after high art. It is very oftenassumed that, because the transfer process is a cheapone and, in the majority of cases, is found uponearthenware, there ca

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