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Etruria es un suburbio de Stoke-on-Trent, en el Staffordshire inglés. Esta localidad, que nació y ha pasado a la historia como una de las sedes de las industrias cerámicas de los hermanos Wedgwood, recibió el evocador nombre de la civilización etrusca en honor a su riqueza artesana.
Etruria is a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. History. Home of Wedgwood. Etruria Hall, the Wedgwood family home. Canal scene at Etruria. Etruria was the fourth and penultimate site for the Wedgwood pottery business. Josiah Wedgwood, who was previously based in Burslem, opened his new works in 1769.
Etruria es un suburbio de Stoke-on-Trent, en el Staffordshire inglés. Esta localidad, que nació y ha pasado a la historia como una de las sedes de las industrias cerámicas de los hermanos Wedgwood, recibió el evocador nombre de la civilización etrusca en honor a su riqueza artesana.
- Wedgwood and Etruscan Art
- Factory Organisation
- The Twentieth Century
- The Site Today
The motto of the Etruria works was Artes Etruriae Renascuntur. This may be translated from the Latin as "The Arts of Etruria are reborn".Wedgwood was inspired by ancient pottery then generally described as Etruscan, but now known to be mostly Ancient Greek pottery. In particular, he was interested in the painted vases which Sir William Hamilton beg...
Wedgwood used division of labour. The site, its appearance and organisation was documented in Artes Etruriae renascuntur; a record of the historical old works at Etruria as they exist today, forming an [sic] unique example of an eighteenth century English factory(1920).
There is a description of Etruria in the 1930s in J. B. Priestley's English Journey. By this time the site was affected by mining subsidence, and plans were drawn for a new factory at Barlastonsome miles south on the Trent and Mersey Canal. The new factory was built in 1938–40 and most of the old factory was demolished in the twentieth century afte...
Little remains of the factory today, although one surviving structure has been protected since the 1970s as a listed building. Between 1986 and 2013 the local newspaper The Sentinel was based on part of the site. As well as The Sentinel, the print plant in Etruria was responsible for printing Northern editions of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday.[...
The Etruria Industrial Museum is located in Etruria, Staffordshire, in England. The museum is a typical and well-preserved example of a nineteenth century British steam-powered potter's mill. It is situated between the Trent and Mersey Canal and the Etruria staircase locks of the Caldon Canal.
HISTORY. The Etruria Industrial Museum Site. The Etruria Industrial Museum is the home of Jesse Shirley’s Bone and Flint Mill (Etruscan Mills) which was an important supplier to the pottery and agricultural industries from the early 1800s to 2011.
Etruria, también llamada frecuentemente en textos griegos y latinos Tyrrhenia o Tirrenia, fue una antigua región histórica situada en el centro de Italia, en las regiones de Toscana, Lacio y Umbría.
