CHAPTER X,V. 



JOHN FLAXMAN HIS CONNECTION WITH JOSIAH WEDGWOOD. 



ORIGINAL BILLS AND LETTEES OF FLAXMAN' S. MODE 



OF REDUCING MEDALLIONS, ETC., BY FIRING. FLAXMAN's 

 MEDALLION PORTRAITS HIS BAS-RELIEFS HIS DESIGNS 

 FOR SET OF CHESSMEN. MR. MARJORIBANK's COLLECTION. 

 FRIEZES AND PLAQUES. FLAXMAN's MODELS IN WAX. 

 JOSIAH WEDGWOOD ELECTED F.R.S. SIR JOSHUA REY- 

 NOLDS PAINTS PORTRAITS OF JOSIAH AND MRS. WEDGWOOD. 

 WRIGHT OF DERBY. WEDGWOOD INVENTS A THERMO- 

 METER FOR MEASURING HEAT. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 

 INVENTION OF " JASPER DIP." 



I HAVE spoken in the last chapter of Flaxman's connection 

 with Wedgwood. I am fortunately enabled, in connection 

 with this interesting part of the memoir of the great Josiah, 

 to introduce here, in their chronological place, some original 

 bills of Flaxman's, which are extremely important and 

 valuable as showing the prices then paid to that afterwards 

 great artist, and as enabling, so far as they go, collectors to 

 know which pieces were really the productions of his master 

 mind. And here let me say that it is a fixed belief a 

 belief in which I fully share that Flaxman for a time 

 modelled at Etruria, in one of the rooms shown in the view 

 just given of the Black Works. The prices paid to him as 

 a young man, it will be seen, were really handsome and 

 liberal, when the time and other matters are considered. 



I have thought it well to illustrate, to some extent, these 

 important and highly interesting bills, which I have the 

 gratification of being the first to make public, so as to 

 enable my readers to authenticate such examples as may be 



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