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This unique biscuit earthenware plaque from about 1773 shows the Wedgwood family home, Etruria Hall from across the banks of the newly-constructed Trent and Mersey Canal. The view was thought for many years to be the work of Edward Stringer, but recent research indicates that James Bakewell was probably responsible.
When Josiah I built his new factory at Etruria he also asked his architect, Joseph Pickford, to design a fitting residence suitable for his status as a master potter and that could house his growing family. Etruria Hall was the result. This Wedgwood biscuit earthenware plaque shows Etruria Hall, the view taken from the banks of the newly-constructed Trent and Mersey Canal.
Not much is known about Edward Stringer. His family came from Knutsford in Cheshire, and may have been related to the Wedgwoods. It is thought that one of the Stringer family provided some of the Staffordshire views that featured on Josiah’s famed ‘Frog service’.
Active from 1750 to 1777, Bakewell was a painter for Wedgwood at Burslem, and then at the Chelsea Decorating Studio, London. He joined Wedgwood in summer 1768, and firstly specialised in enamelling floral specimens in black and yellow enamels. He is thought to have worked on some of the central scenes on ‘Frog service’.
