Photograph album of pottery manufactured by Albert Wenger.
Published / Created:
Hanley, Staffordshire, England, 1888.
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 26 x 34 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:13060068
Classification:
Photographs
Notes:
Albert Francis Wenger entered business in 1870 as a manufacturer and supplier of colors, oxides and glazes for pottery decoration. By 1888, when the present album was compiled, Wenger had moved from Cobridge to the Parker Street Works in Hanley, Staffordshire, where his scope of activity expanded to include the manufacture of earthenware. In 1895, the firm of Wenger's Limited was established "to acquire as a going concern, and to carry on the business of manufacture of colour and chemical, and pottery requisites, formerly prosecuted by A.F. Wenger at Hanley ..." (see: The Chemical Trade Journal, June 8, 1895, pages 374). Wenger became a naturalized British citizen in 1893. His family has moved to Stoke-on-Trent from Switzerland in the 1860s.
Subject Terms:
Wenger, Albert Francis, 1837 or 1838–1924. | Pottery -- Great Britain. | Potters -- Great Britain. | Staffordshire pottery. | Ceramic tiles -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:
Photographs. | Photograph albums. | Albumen prints. | Manufacturers' catalogs.