2010, Number 26 Published September 2014 ©2014 by The Wedgwood Society of New York, ISSN 1043-3317 President's Letter A Bust of Alexander the Great by Harwood A. Johnson Bacchus in Cambridge: Models and Copies by Nancy H. Ramage Wedgwood and Bacchus by David M. Pendergast Mirror, mirror on the Wall Whose is the fairest of them all? The Beesons as Wedgwood Collectors by Kenyon Holder The Ironbridge Gorge: the Ice Age, and the Ceramics Connection by Robert Harrison Wedgwood’s Caneware Statuette of Voltaire by David M. Pendergast Book Review: Caughley Blue & White Patterns Edited by Roger Thornhill

On the cover:Detail of a Wedgwood and Bentley black basalt bust of Alexander the Great,
1779 or 1780, 23” (58.4 cm) high. Impressed ALEXANDER and Wedgwood & Bentley on the back of the bust and WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY on the base. This previously unrecorded bust is a copy of a marble bust in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. Collection of a member of the Wedgwood Society of New York.

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