The Reverend Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818-1897) Dean of Norwich
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1830 - 1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
290 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341427
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, The Reverend Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818-1897) Dean of Norwic, Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of the Reverend Edward Meyrick Goulburn, D.D. standing, bare-headed, in a pulpit. In choker, low-cut waistcoat and jacket. If, as seems probable, this figure 'Coulburn' really represents Dr.Goulburn, is the only known portrait of a cleric of the C of E.
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
COULBURN (gilt script)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter