Clare Leighton and Wedgwood
“Logging” Plate
1951
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Creamware, 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 7/8 in. (26.7 x 26.7 x 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Mrs. Alfred R.L. Dohme, and Gift of Elsie Clark Krug
Object Number
1998.509.12
Part of a series of 12 'New England Industries' scenes taken from wood blocks designed by Clare Leighton
Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Robin Reilly and George Savage, The Dictionary of Wedgewood, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Baron Publishing, 1980, p.214.
Inscribed: Marked on reverse of plate "LOGGING/The glory of the great white pine forests has vanished,/for the trees which became the masts of ocean-going/vessels are now only a treasured memory. New/forests still yield their logs to the woodsman who/guides them down the streams and rivers to lumber/yards and paper mills/NEW ENGLAND INDUSTRIES/from Wood engravings by/CLARE LEIGHTON"
Markings: Marked on reverse of plate "WEDGWOOD OF ETRURIA & BARLASTON"; in script "Clare Leighton"
