- Title:
- Outlines of Grandeur
- Object name(s):
- Side Plate
- Brief description:
- Plate, bone china with transfer-printed decoration; circular, centre decorated with grey and black transfer-print depicting a night sky scene with the moon, clouds, shooting stars and stars, outline of Stonehenge printed in foreground in black, printed text underneath 'stonehenge', rim decorated with gold.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- V&A Wedgwood Collection
- Associated concept:
- ceramics
- Credit line:
- V&A Wedgwood Collection. Presented by Art Fund with major support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, private donations and a public appeal.
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2024NV7573/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 14
- Dimension:
- Diameter
- Dimension measurement unit:
- mm
- Dimension value:
- 53
- Inscription content:
- Outlines of Grandeur' / 'DESIGNED BY / Laurence Whistler' / 'MADE IN ENGLAND BY / WEDGWOOD / OF BARLASTON' (printed on reverse in black)
- Material:
- bone china
- Object name:
- Side Plate
- Object number:
- WE.10897-2014
- Object production date:
- 1955 - 1956
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1955-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1956-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Josiah Wedgwood and Sons
- Organisation's association:
- manufacturers
- Object production person:
- Whistler, Laurence
- Person's association:
- designer
- Object production place:
- Barlaston
- Other number:
- 11380
- Other number type:
- Wedgwood Museum Accession number
- Physical description:
- Plate, bone china with transfer-printed decoration; circular, centre decorated with grey and black transfer-print depicting a night sky scene with the moon, clouds, shooting stars and stars, outline of Stonehenge printed in foreground in black, printed text underneath 'stonehenge', rim decorated with gold.
- Reproduction number:
- 2024NV7573
- Responsible department/section:
- WED
- Technique:
- transfer printing
- Technique:
- Bone china with transfer-printing
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Laurence Whistler was a renowned artist, engraver on glass, poet and author and the younger brother of Rex Whistler. In 1955-56, Whistler designed for Wedgwood a series called ‘Outlines of Grandeur’, which represents famous architecture characteristic of six distinctive periods of British history. The sites pictured include Stonehenge, Tintern Abbey, Holyroodhouse, St Paul's Cathedral, New Delhi and the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/811fca9c-2e44-3f72-b8be-f303724d6f40
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/811fca9c-2e44-3f72-b8be-f303724d6f40, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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