2O4 Josiah Wedgwood CHAP- 



"You will e'en go to Kome," she said, "and I will 

 accompany you." " But how ? " asked Flaxman. " We 

 must work and economise," was her answer. 



Flaxman accordingly set to work with increased 

 vigour. He was willing to do anything, so as to earn 

 the necessary money for the purpose of enabling him 

 to make the journey to Eome. He even undertook to 

 collect the watch rate for the parish of St. Anne, and 

 was occasionally seen going about with an ink-bottle in 

 his buttonhole collecting the rates. He worked harder 

 than ever for Wedgwood. Cameos, intaglios, busts, 

 portraits, plaques of all kinds, proceeded from his fertile 

 brain and hand. Amongst the other works he pro- 

 duced were the Apotheosis of Homer, the Muses with 

 Apollo, the Dancing Hours, Priam begging the body of 

 Hector from Achilles, Julius Csesar, Fauns, Bacchantes, 

 the Nine Muses, and other works. Wedgwood was as 

 proud of the Muses as Flaxman himself. He styled 

 Flaxman " the Genius of Sculpture." Several beautiful 

 tablets for chimneypieces were also produced by him. 

 In fact, never did Flaxman work harder than at this 

 period of his life. 



He worked for others besides Wedgwood. He began 

 to make monuments to the departed. His first was in 

 memory of a man of genius similar to his own that of 

 Collins, the poet, for Chichester Cathedral. Another, 

 of a still higher order, was that of Mrs. Morley for 

 Gloucester Cathedral. The lady perished with her 

 child at sea, and she is represented called up by angels, 



