A Herculaneum stoneware jug depicting the Death of General Wolfe after Benjamin West in relief

‘The makers of stoneware provide still further evidence of the continuing interest in the scene [the death of Wolfe] as painted by West and engraved by Woollett. Herculaneum, the Liverpool pottery founded in 1796 and for which George Pozer of Quebec and Edward Alport of Halifax both became agents, made use of it as relief decoration on jugs that are in date c. 1800-10. Samuel Hollins, a Staffordshire potter, used it on a buff stoneware of about the same date. It turns up too, on unmarked black basalts teaware.’ (E. Collard, op.cit., p.14.)