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2010, Number 26

Published September 2014

©2014 by The Wedgwood Society of New York, ISSN 1043-3317

  • President's Letter
  • A Bust of Alexander the Great by Harwood A. Johnson
  • Bacchus in Cambridge: Models and Copies by Nancy H. Ramage
  • Wedgwood and Bacchus by David M. Pendergast
  • Mirror, mirror on the Wall Whose is the fairest of them all? The Beesons as Wedgwood Collectors by Kenyon Holder
  • The Ironbridge Gorge: the Ice Age, and the Ceramics Connection by Robert Harrison
  • Wedgwood’s Caneware Statuette of Voltaire by David M. Pendergast
  • Book Review:
    Caughley Blue & White Patterns
    Edited by Roger Thornhill

Cover Image

On the cover:Detail of a Wedgwood and Bentley black basalt bust of Alexander the Great,
1779 or 1780, 23” (58.4 cm) high. Impressed ALEXANDER and Wedgwood & Bentley on the back of the bust and WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY on the base. This previously unrecorded bust is a copy of a marble bust in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. Collection of a member of the Wedgwood Society of New York.

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