Ira David Sankey (1840-1908)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1870
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
423 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341436
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Ira David Sankey (1840-1908), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Ira David Sankey, standing, bare-headed, with moustache and whiskers. Moody and Sankey, American Revivalists who paid 3 visits to England between 1873-1892. Moody preached, Sankey sang hymns.
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
SANKEY (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter