Nicholas Ridley (c.1500-1555) Bishop of Rochester and Hugh Latimer, (1485? – 1555) Bishop of Worcester
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1851
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
240 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341442
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Nicholas Ridley (c.1500-1555) Bishop of Rochester and Hugh Latimer, (1485? – 1555) Bishop of Worcester, Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figures of Bishop Ridley and Latimer. Standing back to back, with the stake between them, among burning faggots. Under the title, 'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England. as I trust shall never be put out'. Linked to the anti-popery agitation of 1851 when Pius IX appointed Bishops with English territorial titles.
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
Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out (upper and lower case transfer)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter