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Message:: [QUOTE="blooey, post: 1087342, member: 12007"]fwiw, further research yielded this text: (talking about Josiah Wedgwood's 1787 catalogue) <blockquote>Among the medallions and bas-reliefs listed in his 1787 catalogue as having been modelled by Lady Templetown are ''An Offering to Peace" ''Domestic Employment" "Family School," "Study" "Maria and her Dog" "The Bourbonnais Shepherd" "Charlotte at the Tomb of Werther " — Goethe was then very popular in England — "Contemplation" and "Sportive Love". The first named of these, "An offering to Peace," is the largest of the Templetown bas-reliefs. We know that, in many cases, she sent drawings and not merely "cut-outs," and it is entirely likely that this was among the subjects so handled. More expressive, though, were the smaller studies of "Domestic Employment," with its graceful figure of a woman wielding the distaff, "Maria and Her Dog" visualizing an incident in Sterne's "Sentimental Journey," the "Bourbonnais Shepherd" and, among the most frequently reproduced of all, "Sportive Love," a seated figure of a draped Venus balancing Cupid on her foot. The "Offering to Peace" was a classical subject treated, save perhaps for one figure, classically, but the others which breathed the romance of everyday life better caught and retained the fancy of the public. Indeed, it was this faculty of idealizing the inhabitants of her own world that gave Lady Templetown her vogue. </blockquote>So it seems the "original" is the Wedgwood bas-relief after all!<blockquote> </blockquote>[/QUOTE]

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