'Josiah Wedgwood Esq on Wedgwood china', no date

Pencil sketch from a sketchbook of 'Military and Miscellaneous sketches 1874-1924', by William Barns Wollen (1857-1936), after George Stubbs (1724-1806).

Annotated sketch of English potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) wearing tricorn hat, mounted on horse; with a second head and shoulders sketch of the subject in the upper right of the page.

Wollen exhibited many paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1879. He was highly regarded for his battle paintings and, as a 'special' artist with 'The Sphere', he went to South Africa to cover the Boer War (1899-1902). By 1916, in the midst of the First World War, Wollen's romantic depictions of military glory were increasingly condemned in the press as predictable and conventional.

From a collection of 43 sketchbooks of pencil, pen and ink drawings, 1874-1924.