Stubbs meets Spode

Details

Artist

Stephen Bowers

Title

Stubbs meets Spode

Year

2012

Medium

earthenware, underglaze colour, clear earthenware glaze

Size

6 x 63 cm

Stock Number

212117

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Exhibited

Exhibited: Stephen Bowers, Larks Tongues in Aspic Part IV, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 27 Oct - 8 Dec 2012

Further Information

The boldly crosshatched image of the copperplate kangaroo engraved from Stubbs’ painting which appeared in Hawkesworth’s edition of Cook’s Voyages, An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, 1773, asserts itself over a wash background depicting details of a numbered analytical chart of the engraved copper plate for Spode’s blue willow ‘Temple’ pattern.