Digital Collections

Dinner Plate

Object/Artifact

White dinner plate with red transfer design with people in the foreground and Catskill Mountain House in the background. Shaped and embossed rim.

78.30.1

Thomas Cole's painting, "View of the Catskill Mountain House, N.Y.," engraved and published in London in 1830, inspired this transfer-printed scene. Several Staffordshire potters reproduced engravings of the Catskill Mountain House, a popular resort overlooking the Hudson Valley.

Genesee Country Village and Museum

circa 1830

Staffordshire

England

United Kingdom

Western Europe

Europe

Makers Mark

Bottom

Catskill / Mountain House / U.S. / Adams Image of an Eagle

English

Stamped

10-3/8 in

Earthenware

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