One of the Machin family of potters, Burslem (c.1802-38) 

• "In 1831, Mr. [Joseph] Machin died and was succeeded by his son, William Machin and partners" (Jewitt)

• "Machin & Co. have, within a few years past [in September 1831], introduced a patent process for printing china and earthenware by machinery, the paper impressions being thrown off from steel cylinders, each engraved with the required pattern, in rapid and almost endless succession, ready for the transferrers' hands." (Ward p 265)

Adam Clarke (1762 – 26 August 1832) was an Irish writer and biblical scholar.  

He was a support for abolition of slavery and a Methodist theologian who served three times as President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. 

Published as the Act directs
October 13th 1832
by
William Machin
Burslem
Staffordshire Potteries

This bust was produced less than two months after Clarke died 

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