1653
Figure — CRC# 1653
- Description
- An extremely rare Bristol group of Andromache weeping over the ashes of Hector, in the white, on rectangular base
- Service
- In the white
- Date
- 1779
- Size
- 32cm tall
- Condition
- Minor firing issues to base otherwise perfect
- Mark
- No mark
- Mark Group
- No mark
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Champion
- Historic Provenance
- English private collection
- Notes
- Richard Champion made this, his most famous work, in 1779 in memory of his daughter Eliza who died suddenly that year. Only two other copies are known. One, decorated with a memorial to Eliza, he took to South Carolina in 1784 and passed down through his family after his death. It is now in the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. The other is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The work is based on a Thomas Burke mezzotint Andromache and Hecuba Weeping over the Ashes of Hector (1771) which in turn was based on a painting of the same name by Angelica Kauffman.
- CRC#
- 1653
- Type
- Figure
Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0404 · 1770
Andromache and Hecuba weeping over the ashes of Hector by Angelica Kaufmann
H0402 · 1771
A widely published mezzotint by Thomas Burke
H0403 · 1779
Grief, or Dear Eliza, the last dated work produced by Richard Champion's Bristol factory
H0405 · 1873
Grief, or Dear Eliza, from Owen's Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol
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