Clare Leighton and Wedgwood
“Farming” 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
1998.509.9
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 "FARMING/Matching their fortitude to the strength of the earth,/the first New England settlers, who arrived in "The/Mayflower", brought forth a bountiful harvest from/the new land. The Rythm in the lives of the New/England farmers, in its seasonal pattern, will go/onward the same/NEW ENGLAND INDUSTRIES/from Wood engravings by/CLARE LEIGHTON"
Markings: Marked on reverse of plate "WEDGWOOD OF ETRURIA & BARLASTON"; in script "Clare Leighton"
