Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Dinner Plate (With View of Bowdoin College; The Campus in 1822)

Preview image of work. earthenware, Dinner Plate (With View of Bowdoin College; The Campus in 1822) 22298

2011.69.452.3

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Dinner Plate (With View of Bowdoin College; The Campus in 1822)

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Artist

Josiah Wedgwood, & Sons Ltd. (Staffordshire England, 1759 – )

Title

Dinner Plate (With View of Bowdoin College; The Campus in 1822)

Creation Date

1931

Century

early 21st century

Dimensions

10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (26.67 x 26.67 cm)

Object Type

ceramic

Creation Place

Europe, United Kingdom

Medium and Support

earthenware

Credit Line

Bequest of David P. Becker, Class of 1970

Copyright

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Accession Number

2011.69.452.3

In 1930 Bowdoin College commissioned Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, the British ceramics manufacturer, to create tableware expressly for its alumni. This effort followed Wedgwood’s successful introduction of dinner sets made for Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan. Wedgwood’s process of transfer-printing was well-suited to lithographic and other printed images. John G. Brown’s Southwest View of Bowdoin College of 1822 was one of the six scenes depicted as part of the original production. The college ordered plates printed in Wedgwood’s traditional blue but also introduced a second color: “a fine shade close to black,” known as “sepia,” the color seen in this example. The Bowdoin family and college crests along with pine boughs and ivy and oak leaves decorated the rims, encircling each central scene.