2io Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



Hollanders, which I am now working on, and intend 

 soon to finish. 



" Psyche on a Flower-Pot a companion to Venus 

 Adolescens. Several bas-reliefs of boys for teapot sides, 

 and the wax profiles of several distinguished persons 

 these last to be done as opportunity shall permit." 



It is not known what remuneration Wedgwood sent 

 to Flaxman, but the latter seems to have been greatly 

 pleased with it in his letter of the 22nd August 1782. 

 This letter is very valuable as authenticating as Flax- 

 man's work the magnificent bust of Mercury, after- 

 wards produced by Wedgwood : 



"27 Wardour Street. Sir I would have thanked 

 you for the princely present you gave me for the few 

 instructions your sons had from me before now, if thanks 

 had been adequate to such generosity, but their only 

 rewards are the elevated reflections arising from such 

 actions themselves. I did not therefore write until I 

 had prepared a small token of gratitude two small 

 reliefs of Jupiter and Mercury, which you may copy 

 in your excellent bisque* for your manufactory if you 

 think them worthy. You did me the honour to praise 

 my bust of Mercury, the cast of which you will favour 

 with a place in your study, as one of the highest grati- 

 fications you can bestow on its sculptor. 



"As I know your kindness interests itself in my 

 welfare, I have the pleasure to inform you that I am 

 nobly employed in modelling four Cristos, large as life, 

 and a group of four figures from this passage in the 



