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This new body of color work, completed over the past three years by David Stephenson, records Gothic architecture in Northern European churches and cathedrals. In this series, images of naves, crossings, apses and choirs are combined into diptychs and triptychs to create anthropomorphic designs. Using long exposures, Stephenson continues to explore notions of the sublime […]

Josiah Wedgwood, (baptized July 12, 1730, Burslem [now in Stoke-on-Trent], Staffordshire, Eng.—died Jan. 3, 1795, Etruria, Staffordshire), 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. The youngest child of the potter Thomas Wedgwood, Josiah came from a family whose members had been potters since the 17th century. After his father’s death in 1739, he worked in the family business at Churchyard Works, Burslem, becoming exceptionally skillful at the potter’s wheel and, in 1744, an apprentice to his elder

Style of Jacob de Wit - Children Playing with a GoatWe print high quality reproductions of historical maps, photographs, prints, etc. Because of their historical nature, some of these images may show signs of wear and tear - small rips, stains, creases, etc. We believe that in many cases this contributes to the historical character of the item.