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15 de abr. de 2024 · Josiah Wedgwood was an English pottery designer and manufacturer, outstanding in his scientific approach to pottery making and known for his exhaustive researches into materials, logical deployment of labour, and sense of business organization.
Caroline's uncle, Josiah "Jos" Wedgwood II noted that she had "so much taste of beauty that is a pleasure to travel with her". Uncle Jos spoke from experience: in spring 1827 he talked Caroline into accompanying him to Geneva to collect his daughters, Emma and Fanny, who were staying in Switzerland with their Aunt Jessie Sismondi (nee Allen).
25 de abr. de 2024 · Founder Josiah Wedgwood was a prominent abolitionist, and Odundo uses this history to construct a narrative around slavery and exploitation, building up from a bottom layer featuring men and...
Hace 2 días · That man was Charles’s uncle Josiah Wedgwood II, the son of the founder of Wedgwood pottery. The second obstacle was FitzRoy. He was an aristocratic young man who was looking for someone of equal status he could dine and converse with during the long voyage.
Hace 6 días · This medallion was created by Josiah Wedgwood, a British ceramics maker and abolitionist, around 1787. The image of the kneeling slave in chains asking "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?" became an international symbol of the abolitionist movement.
Hace 3 días · Josiah Wedgwood, world-renowned pottery manufacturer of the 1700s, needed a better way than bumpy packhorse tracks to get raw materials into his factories and transport his delicate products out. With Wedgwood as one of the main benefactors, the great engineer James Brindley was employed and the Trent & Mersey Canal opened in 1777.
22 de abr. de 2024 · The Seminar and 18th-& 19th-century Studies, Department of English, invites you to a presentation by Stefan Uhlig, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Davis. Stefan provides this abstract: Josiah Wedgwood has been rightly praised as a commercial genius.
