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拍品专文
There are three variations of the Bidston Lighthouse and Signal Station print known. The main difference being the signal owners named. Two, dated 1788 and 1789 were exhibited, 'NCS Made in Liverpool', Catalogue 1993, nos. 181 of 183. For an undated example, post 1793, see The Norman Stretton Collection, Phillips, 21 February 2001, lot 275.
As an aside, it is interesting to note that the William Burton Goodwin collection also contained a Liverpool jug transfer-printed with the 'Signals At Portland Observatory' (collection no. 176). These two signals, one located in Bidston, Liverpool and the other located in Portland, Maine being the only prints of their type produced on creamware. The jug was gifted by his heirs to the Portland Museum of Art, Portland Maine.
The cartoon source for the iron-red print on the present lot was published by Fores on the 16th April 1803, just before the declaration of war on France. Several Staffordshire potters used variants of the print, usually in conjunction with the motto Success to the Volunteers as found on the present example. Reproductions of these early wares commemorating military and naval exploits were popular amongst potters in the early 19th Century. See David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, London, 1992, pls. 501-504.
As an aside, it is interesting to note that the William Burton Goodwin collection also contained a Liverpool jug transfer-printed with the 'Signals At Portland Observatory' (collection no. 176). These two signals, one located in Bidston, Liverpool and the other located in Portland, Maine being the only prints of their type produced on creamware. The jug was gifted by his heirs to the Portland Museum of Art, Portland Maine.
The cartoon source for the iron-red print on the present lot was published by Fores on the 16th April 1803, just before the declaration of war on France. Several Staffordshire potters used variants of the print, usually in conjunction with the motto Success to the Volunteers as found on the present example. Reproductions of these early wares commemorating military and naval exploits were popular amongst potters in the early 19th Century. See David Drakard, Printed English Pottery, London, 1992, pls. 501-504.