The Rt Hon. William Ewart Gladstone MP (1809-1898)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1890 - 1895
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
280 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341408
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, The Rt Hon. William Ewart Gladstone MP (1809-1898), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of William Ewart Gladstone, standing, bare-headed. Left hand on a pedestal, right holding a speech against his waistcoat. A cast figure. Prime Minister 1868-74, 1880-5, 1886, 1892-4.
Provenance
part of collection built up by Thomas Balston (d.1967). He wrote about the collection in Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age, 1958.
Marks and inscriptions
MR GLADSTONE (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter