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Jug, discoloured cream-glazed earthenware, glaze crackled and flaking, barrel-shaped with deep projecting upswept spout and plain loop handle grooved at the edges, low recessed base. Printed in over-glaze black on one side with 'The Death of Wolfe', and on the other with a soldier in tricorne hat, slashed coat, breeches and high boots, leaning on the hind quarters of his prancing horse and being embraced by a girl in a low-cut dress and a hat, a wood with hills (one crowned with a castle) behind, beneath is the verse - With anxious Doubts and Fears opprest, Belinda clasps her Soldiers Breast, Those tender fears he would relieve Yet sighs for Glory and for Love. A bouquet of carnation, auriculas and leaves printed below the spout.

The 'Death of Wolfe' is not the standard print taken from the central section of Benjamin West's painting used by Sadler (Drakard, David, English Printed Pottery, 1992, pls.402-403).