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Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood

Wedgwood Manufactory (Staffordshire, England, active 1759–present)

Joachim Smith (English, active 1759–1803)

about 1773

Object PlaceEngland

Medium/TechniqueFine stoneware (white jasper)

Dimensions8 x 10.5 cm (3 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)

Credit LineBequest of George Washington Wales

Accession number03.273

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Not on view

ClassificationsCeramics

Collections

Europe

InscriptionsExtended description quoting Llewllynn Jewitt's "The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood" (London, 1865), pp. 321 and 364 is inscribed in ink on paper attached to the back of the frame. Added to it is a note initialed by the donor ("GWW"): "This one is not jasper but of biscuit"