Description:
English porcelain (bone china) dessert plate decorated in the well with a copy of William Henry Bartlett's (1809-1854) image of "A View from Mount Holyoke" (painter unknown). The underside of the plate is inscribed in overglaze red enamel "1/361" and "View from Mount Holyoke./ America" The scene is copied from a print dated 1839 (engraving on steel) with the same title that also appeared in Volume 1 of "American Scenery" (London: George Virtue, 1840) by Nathaniel Parker Willis, which is illustrated with engravings made from Bartlett's drawings from his four visits to the United States between 1836 and 1852. The scene depicts people looking southwest from a promontory on Mount Holyoke with a corner of the hotel on the left and the Connecticut River oxbow below. The plate was manufactured by the Upper Hanley China Works which was run by two different partnerships, from 1835 to 1840 the factory was operated by William Ridgway and Ralph Meyer Robey until their partnership ended in 1840; then William Ridgway operated the pottery under the title of "W. Ridgway & Son" until the contents were sold in 1848. This series of dessert plates also includes "Horse Shoe Falls Niagara with the Tower/ America". Similar plates and a dish are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art L.1998.38.1-.3 (possibly on loan to the institution from a private collector)
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