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Title: Transfer printing on enamels, porcelain and pottery : its origin and development in the United Kingdom
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, William, -1643
Subjects: Transfer-printing Pottery Enameled ware
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall New York : Keramic Studio Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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r of good repute in hisprofession. He was born in 1742, and died in 1807.If at Hanley in 1767 he would only be 25 years of agewhen his fellow engravers were striving to master thesecret. Unless, indeed, he had served at Battersea,Worcester, or Liverpool, it is unlikely that he could,in 1767, have acquired the modus operandi of transferprinting. Nevertheless, we find him, subsequently, atSwansea practising that same art. Friend Shawproceeds with his statement, and says that JohnRobinson, enameller and printer, left Sadler andGreen in order to print for Wedgwood, and afterwardscommenced business for himself at Burslem as aprinter in black and red on the glaze, but that his specimens were deficient in elegance. When thishappened we are not informed. Again, he says thatHarry Baker was the first black printer (sic) inStaffordshire and printed transfers from old bookplates previous to Sadler and Green, of Liverpool,practising the new process. If so, this ingenious man— 76 Plate No. XXVII.
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Fig. B 22-1 .PLATE, OPAQUE CHINA, BROWN PRINT.Swansea. PLATE, Fig. B 22-2.OPAQUE CHINA, BROWN PRINTSwansea. Development in the 18th Century. Harry Baker—may have been the first person to givethe idea to England of transfer printing, although hedid not succeed with his medium. It never couldsucceed by means of book plates as explained already.This incident, how^ever, show^s how^ the incipient ideahad been simmering in other brains than those ofJohn Sadler, of Liverpool. Baker wsls only a w^orkingman, and he had no capital w^herew^ith to develop hisinvention, for v^^e find him at Shelton, about 1777,trying bat printing for the Baddeleys. In this, Shawsays again, very little progress was made for sometime. Subsequently, it appears, Baddeley employedThomas Radford, engraver, to print tea services byan improved method of transferring the impression onto the bisquet ware, which was attempted to be keptsecret, but was soon developed. The next stepseems to have been the employment of Wm. Sm

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