- Object name(s):
- Mug
- Brief description:
- Mug of lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed with in underglaze black on one side with a half-length portrait of Brunel, the engineer of the Thames Tunnel, and on the other side with a view of the tunnel. Cylindrical with a foliated loop handle. Below the view of the Tunnel is inscribed '1,200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years building & cost £446,000. Opened the 25th day of March, 1843.'.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Ceramics
- Associated concept:
- Earthenware
- Content - concept:
- portrait
- Content - concept:
- tunnel
- Content - person:
- Brunel, Marc Isambard
- Credit line:
- Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BP1277/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 9.5
- Dimension:
- Diameter
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 9.8
- Inscription content:
- 'Commemorating the opening of Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel in 1843'
- Inscription content:
- 'SIR J. M. BRUNEL F.R.S., Engineer of the Thames Tunnel'
- Inscription interpretation:
- Inscribed on the portrait
- Inscription content:
- '1,200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years building & cost £446,000. Opened the 25th day of March, 1843.'
- Inscription interpretation:
- Inscribed below the tunnel
- Material:
- lead glaze
- Material:
- earthenware
- Object name:
- Mug
- Object number:
- 3641-1901
- Object production date:
- ca. 1843
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1838-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1847-12-31
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Staffordshire
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Mug of lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed with in underglaze black on one side with a half-length portrait of Brunel, the engineer of the Thames Tunnel, and on the other side with a view of the tunnel. Cylindrical with a foliated loop handle. Below the view of the Tunnel is inscribed '1,200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years building & cost £446,000. Opened the 25th day of March, 1843.'.
- Reproduction number:
- 2007BP1277
- Reproduction number:
- 2007BP1276
- Reproduction number:
- 2006BB1723
- Responsible department/section:
- CER
- Style:
- Victorian
- Technique:
- transfer-printed
- Technique:
- glazed
- Technique:
- Lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze black
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Mug Made in Staffordshire, about 1843 Commemorating the opening of Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel in 1843 Lead-glazed earthenware 3641-1901 Jermyn Street Collection
- Text date:
- 23/05/2008
- Text reason:
- Gallery label text
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Doran, Susan. Royal River. Power Pageantry and the Thames. London: Scala Publishers Ltd. 2012. 209p, ill. cat. no. 172. ISBN 978-1-85759-700-4
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0052e14d-daac-3acd-88c4-d2c136c2b8c7
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0052e14d-daac-3acd-88c4-d2c136c2b8c7, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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