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time I see her, aud having such a Mistress in the 

 science of flower-drawing, I hope that our future pro- 

 ductions will show that I have profited accordingly." 



Wedgwood engaged the best artists, wherever he 

 could find them. He sought them out amongst the 

 London fan-painters, coach-painters, and fresco-painters. 

 It did not matter whether they were men or women. 

 Both were alike employed. One Croft struck out a 

 scheme for employing faint white outlines on the Vases ; 

 this was followed by Hutchins from Soho. The border 

 lines were traced at Etruria, and the colours were 

 afterwards laid on at Chelsea. Bakewell of Liverpool, 

 and Ealph Unwin of Burslem, were employed on this 

 work ; for there continued to be to use Wedgwood's 

 words " an epidemical madness for Vases." 



