Miss Nancy Dawson Dancing the Hornpipe

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V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Artist/Maker	Sadler and Green (printer)
Place of origin	Liverpool (made)

Tin-glazed earthenware tile, transfer-printed in black with a girl dancing before a man who is seated against a background of bushes and trees, with another man behind him plyaing a fiddle. Border of rococo scrolls.

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Categories	Delftware Ceramics Tiles Earthenware
Object type	Tile
Title	Miss Nancy Dawson Dancing the Hornpipe (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Tin-glazed earthenware with transfer-printed decoration Earthenware Tin Glaze Transfer-Printed Glazed
Brief description	Delftware. Tile, tin-glazed earthenware with transfer-printed decoration depicting Miss Nancy Dawson dancing the hornpipe, printed by Sadler and Green, England, ca. 1760-1765.
Physical description	Tin-glazed earthenware tile, transfer-printed in black with a girl dancing before a man who is seated against a background of bushes and trees, with another man behind him plyaing a fiddle. Border of rococo scrolls.
Dimensions	Width: 12.8cm Length: 12.8cm Thickness: 0.8cm
Credit line	Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history	Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 1885. Purchased by her from Becks, Bristol, 1869.
Subjects depicted	Landscapes (Representations) Figures (Representations) Fiddle
Bibliographic references	Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8 Lady Schreiber, No: 840.4. Ray 1973, No: B4-3, p.42.
Other numbers	N 433 - Delftware (1997) cat. no. Sch. II 28 - Schreiber number
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	414:840/C-1885

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Record created	January 29, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O20559/miss-nancy-dawson-dancing-the-tile-sadler-and-green/

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