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A POST-ROTHWELL PATTERN CHANGE
A later version of the ‘Herdsman with Cattle, Farmhouse and Barn’ pattern
c. 1796+ and thus post-dating Rothwell’s earlier version was seen at the
Sir Leslie Joseph Collection auction preview in 1992. This new version
has a tiled roof on the farmhouse, two chimneys and no birds. This version
of the pattern was found on a large punchbowl where in the Sotheby’s
Catalogue Item Number 880 it is listed as Swansea. The border on this
punchbowl is one also known to have been used with both the early
Rothwell version of this pattern and the early version of the ‘Smartly
Dressed Shepherd’ pattern.
BORDERS AND HANDLE PRINTS
Finally here are some borders and handle prints linked to Rothwell designs
which we illustrate in two groups.
N..B. A close-up of the bricking which surrounds the ‘Elephant and
Howdah’ pattern is also found on Rothwell’s prints on paper of Swansea
and its locality, where it surrounds entirely the oval outline of each scene,
for example--- ‘South East View of Clasmont’; Sketty Hall’; ‘North East
View of the Town of Swansea’; ‘Port and Bay of Swansea’; ‘Briton Ferry
near Neath’ and ‘Penrice Castle’.
Evidence of this bricking is also to be seen in the ‘Brick and Garland’
borders which are found with the ‘Precarious Chinaman’ and other
Swansea patterns.
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