Pottery

Pottery inspired by Grace Darling that is on a shawl that belonged to her.  Many pieces similar to this were produced due to the invention of the transfer-printing process. Famous names were used to advertise products, which was a new concept in merchandising. Pottery manufacturers immortalised newsworthy people and events onto ceramic ware. 

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Bust

This is a bust of Grace Darling by David Dunbar. He would show these in one of his rooms in Newcastle for one guinea each. Visitors could also pay to receive a cast of Grace Darling. Many remark on the resemblance to Napoleon. Busts were used to replicate an individual and was usually based on influential people who had an impact on society, which demonstrates how prominent Grace Darling was.

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Portrait

Here are two portraits of Grace Darling, one of her father, William Darling and her mother, Thomasin Darling by H.P Parker, 1838.

Following Grace’s deed she sat for numerous paintings as the public demanded to know what the courageous heroine looked like. She found the entire process trying, which her father notes in a letter ‘In this place it is attended with great deal of inconvenience’. As already stated, her class status is ambiguous to historians however it is assumed that her family would have not normally posed for portraits. Therefore, these few pictures show that the public demanded to know what their new sea heroine looked like and the desire to purchase them.

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