Photographic Techniques Gallery, WWW Tile Image Gallery.

Selected photographic tile images for your visual pleasure.

(M026)
Lions Face Rock, Dovedale 56
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, mark moulded P, decorated by Photo Decorated Tile Co Derby, Pilkington blank. c.1900.

(M029)
Promenade Matlock. 165.
Dust pressed each 6 x 6 in, decorated by Photo Decorated Tile Co Derby.
Left blank marked 4, right blank MAW & CO LD ENGLAND c.1899.
The scene is little changed today, just a few more houses on the hillside. The actual photograph was taken from a slightly elevated position. A band-stand was built in the same year and on the spot where the photo was taken. It is probable that the photographer positioned himself on the ladders or roof to get the desired shot.

(M049)
Dust pressed, photo-litho with background filled in by hand, technique pioneered by C H Temple, 6 x 6 in, marked Maw & Co Benthall Works Jackfield Salop, c.1900.

(M125)
Dust pressed, 6 x 6 in, printed tile, marked England UCX A, designed by Charles Henry Temple, Maw & Co, c.1904.
This design and others similar were produced by a photographic method of etching the copper plates. The technique was developed by Temple for Maw and Co, designs using the same technique appear on post 1904 Booths tiles, giving rise to the possibility that Temple was designing for both Maws and Booths.

The reverse is featured in Back Chat 14, Glazed Expressions 20, Spring 1990, Fig 5.
Clive House, Shrewsbury keep Temple's notebooks. They contain a sketch by Temple containing the 'bowed headed eagle'.
(Page 102, Pottery and Tiles of the Severn Valley by Michael Messenger - ISBN 07066-0732-5)

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