Clare Leighton and Wedgwood
“Codfishing” Plate
1951
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Creamware, 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 7/8 in. (26.7 x 26.7 x 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Mrs. Alfred R.L. Dohme, and Gift of Elsie Clark Krug
Object Number
1998.509.4
Part of a series of 12 'New England Industries' scenes taken from wood blocks designed by Clare Leighton.
Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Robin Reilly and George Savage, The Dictionary of Wedgewood, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Baron Publishing, 1980, p.214.
Inscribed: Marked on reverse of plate "CODFISHING/The Grand Banks, down east of New England's/shores, have become justly famous as a lucrative/fishing ground for cod. The constant battle against wind and cold has engendered in the New Englander/those same fine characterists of face and figure to/be found in fishermen everywhere./NEW ENGLAND INDUSTRIES/from Wood engravings by/CLARE LEIGHTON"
Markings: Marked on reverse of plate "WEDGWOOD OF ETRURIA & BARLASTON"; in script "Clare Leighton"
