Firebacks

Description: Arched rectangular shaped; cavetto moulded edging; male figure in dress of the period, right hand on hip, left hand holding reins, astride a prancing horse; date and inscription (letter 'N' reversed) follow inside top edge.

Notes: Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1612-1671), commander of the New Model Army, which probably prompted the epithet, conqueror. 1649 was the year of Charles I's execution, to which Fairfax was opposed. Copies were advertised in Longden & Co.'s (Sheffield) catalogue c.1911, and in the Carron Company's catalogue.

Copies of this fireback are known.

Inscription: 1649 LD FAIRFAX COVNQVIROR