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Sadler experimented with transfer-printing on white glazed delftware tiles, transferring images from engraved copper plates to tiles, using enamel colours fixed in low-temperature firing.\r\n\r\nActors and actresses could become big stars in the 18th century, when theatres, concert halls and pleasure gardens were the major forms of public entertainment.  Engravers regularly produced images of paintings of the most popular performers, so the ability to reproduce engravings on ceramics was a lucrative development.  Since the engravings were transfer-printed, the original images appear on the tiles in reverse.\r\n\r\nBorn and educated in Bath, Ann Barry (born Ann Street) became an actress in York. In 1754 she married William Dancer, an actor. In the 1758-59 season they were engaged by the actor Spranger Barry at his Crow Street Theatre in Dublin and Ann became a star there within a year. She embarked on a relationship with Barry whom she married, probably in 1768, after William Dancer's death. Garrick employed Spranger and Ann Barry at Drury Lane Theatre where Mrs Barry became known as one of the finest actresses of her day, rivalling the supremacy of even the great Sarah Siddons.","physicalDescription":"Square glazed cream earthenware tile, transfer-printed with a decorative border of trellis work, and symbolic theatrical objects on the right and left sides including a flaming torch, comedy and tragedy masks, and a lyre.  There is a central image of Mrs Barry, in jacket, waistcoat and knee-length breeches, wearing a powdered wig, as Sir Harry Wildair, looking to her right. In a ribbon ground above heris head is the name: 'MRS BARRY', and below: 'in the character of SIR HARRY WILDAIR'.  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Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1993."}],"production":"The image is taken from an engraving by Goldar, after D. Dodd, published as a plate to <i>New English Theatre</i>, 1777.\r\n","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Barry, Ann","id":"N4767"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.630-1997"],"accessionNumberNum":"630","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":1997,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2005-11-17","availableToBook":true}}