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Artist/Maker	Hartley, Greens & Co (designers)
Place of origin	Leeds (designed)

Pattern book of the Leeds firm of potters, Messrs. Hartley, Greens & Co., consisting of designs and sketches of domestic pottery, on loose sheets pasted into used account books. 108 pages of blue laid paper stitched into millboard cover. Inscribed in ink on front cover Original Drawing Book No. 1. Sketches date variously from 1778 to 1792.

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Categories	Porcelain Pattern Books Drawings
Object type	Pattern book
Materials and techniques	Sketches, pasted into ledger. Sketching
Brief description	Pattern book of the Leeds firm of potters, Messrs. Hartley, Greens & Co., consisting of designs and sketches of domestic pottery, on loose sheets pasted into used account books. 108 pages of blue laid paper stitched into millboard cover. Inscribed in ink on front cover Original Drawing Book No. 1. Sketches date variously from 1778 to 1792.
Physical description	Pattern book of the Leeds firm of potters, Messrs. Hartley, Greens & Co., consisting of designs and sketches of domestic pottery, on loose sheets pasted into used account books. 108 pages of blue laid paper stitched into millboard cover. Inscribed in ink on front cover Original Drawing Book No. 1. Sketches date variously from 1778 to 1792.
Dimensions	Height: 35cm Width: 23cm Dimensions taken from Lambert, Susan (ed.) Pattern & Design: Designs for the Decorative Arts 1480-1980 London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983
Subjects depicted	Sketches Designs Pottery
Bibliographic references	Lambert, Susan (ed.) Pattern & Design: Designs for the Decorative Arts 1480-1980 London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983 Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1941, London: HMSO, 1954. John D. Griffin's 'The Leeds Pottery, 1770-1881' (Leeds : Leeds Art Collections Fund, 2005) discusses and illustrates every page of the V&A's Leeds Pottery pattern books.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.576-1941

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1025428/pattern-book-hartley-greens/

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