Place MadeEurope (British)
Title
Liverpool Transfer Ware Pitcher
Date1810
Mediumporcelain
Dimensions5 5/8 × 3 in. (14.3 × 7.6 cm)
Donor credit lineGiven in memory of E. Bates McKee
Object number1996.66.4
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionLiverpool Transfer-printed creamware or English Liverpool Queen's Ware from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. Pitcher with "Jemmy's Farewell" -- sailor and woman with 2-stanza verse. Verse is the second stanza in the poem "Auld Robin Gray" a ballad written by the Scottish poet Lady Anne Lindsay (1750–1825) in 1772. Transfer image similar to an illustration in the British Museum collection by John Hodges Benwell (1762-1785) called "Jemmy's Farewell" part of a pair of illustrations created for the ballad (1781-1785) and "Jemmy's Farewell" published by Robert Sayer in 1786, a copy of the print held in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Verso: Manor house with boats on river.
On View
Not on view1745-1925
1725-1960
Circa 1854-1860
Goodyear, Joseph
Circa 1800
Anonymous
