Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10721
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Glass vase from Pompeii
Date
1849
Creator
J R Jobbins (British) , Lithographer
After
John Strudwich (British) , Artist
Object type
Library reference
22201
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (painting): 215mm
width (painting): 150mm
width (painting): 150mm
Subject
Description
Side view of a blue and white glass vase from Pompeii, Italy.
Plate 1 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue, London, 1849).
Inscribed: “PLATE 1. GLASS VASE. Exhumed at Pompeii, in 1839, and preserved in the Museum at Naples. J.R.Jobbins. John Strudwich, del.”
Apsley Pellatt (1791-1863) was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Royal Society in 1851. He was a British glassware manufacturer in the family company of Pellatt and Green, later renamed Apsley Pellatt & Co. He was MP for Southwark.
Plate 1 from the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue, London, 1849).
Inscribed: “PLATE 1. GLASS VASE. Exhumed at Pompeii, in 1839, and preserved in the Museum at Naples. J.R.Jobbins. John Strudwich, del.”
Apsley Pellatt (1791-1863) was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Royal Society in 1851. He was a British glassware manufacturer in the family company of Pellatt and Green, later renamed Apsley Pellatt & Co. He was MP for Southwark.
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