Underglaze
Printing in a single color on earthenware and stoneware 1820-1850
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Source Description:
Title: Fairmount Water Works
Artist: Thomas Birch
Print Date: 1821
An 1821 painting of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works, heralded in the mid-19th Century as one of the most efficient and attractive municipal water supply systems in the United States and abroad. Fairmount Water Works, by Thomas Birch (1779-1851), oil...
Source Description:
Title: Fairmount Water Works
Artist: Thomas Birch
Print Date: 1821
An 1821 painting of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works, heralded in the mid-19th Century as one of the most efficient and attractive municipal water supply systems in the United States and abroad. Fairmount Water Works, by Thomas Birch (1779-1851), oil on canvas
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Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares
Pattern Type: Landscapes and Waterscapes
Date: c. 1822 - 1834 Maker: Joseph Stubbs
Description:
This earthenware plate printed in the Fair Mount near Philadelphia pattern shows a view of the Dam and Water Works at Fair Mount, Philadelphia, the second Water Works of Philadelphia. The view includes the new Schuylkill buildings and the Dam. The oval printed mark shown was used by both periods of Stubbs' potting, under Stubbs alone, or under the firm of Stubbs & Kent...
Description:
This earthenware plate printed in the Fair Mount near Philadelphia pattern shows a view of the Dam and Water Works at Fair Mount, Philadelphia, the second Water Works of Philadelphia. The view includes the new Schuylkill buildings and the Dam. The oval printed mark shown was used by both periods of Stubbs' potting, under Stubbs alone, or under the firm of Stubbs & Kent from 1822 to 1830.
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