Soft rock based compound often used for sculpture and tools

Brick-making: a young woman is pulling a large wheelbarrow full of clay while a boy tips a barrow load into a pug-mill, to which a horse is attached by a yoke. Coloured aquatint with etching after W.H. Pyne, 1805.

Clayton's patent tile, brick and pipe machine.

Human head sculpted in clay, forming the cheekbones

Human head sculpted in clay, forming the eye sockets

Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles of expression

Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles

Human head sculpted in clay, early stage in process

Human head sculpted in clay, completing the eye

Human head sculpted in clay, applying the skin

Human head sculpted in clay, refinement of facial features

Human head sculpted in clay, completing the mouth

Specification of William Parry and John Frearson : treating sewage.

Human head sculpted in clay, skull viewed from the front

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Clay

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Specification of William Parry and John Frearson : treating sewage.

Human head sculpted in clay, refinement of facial features

Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles

Human head sculpted in clay, applying the skin

Human head sculpted in clay, skull viewed from the front

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Clay

Images from the collections

Images featuring Clay

Works from the collections

Specification of William Parry and John Frearson : treating sewage.

Human head sculpted in clay, refinement of facial features

Human head sculpted in clay, facial muscles

Human head sculpted in clay, applying the skin

Human head sculpted in clay, skull viewed from the front

Frequent collaborators

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