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Pattern Book

1778-92 (designed)
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.

Object details

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 createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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