274 THE WEDGWOODS. 



in their collections. The first bill, now before me, is as 

 follows : 



7T 



5^ 



1782. d. 



April 28. Moulding a Turin 18 



83. Moulding a Bust of Mr. & Mrs. Siddons .1116 



Sept. 6. A Cast of a Fragment by Phidias . . 10 6 



300 



Succeeding this in point of date, the following interesting 

 letter, written in October, 1782, from Wardour Street, where 

 Flaxman had only a short time before removed from his 

 father's house, and to which he had only then taken home 

 his young and loving bride written, too, it will be remem- 

 bered, soon after the time when the bachelor president of 

 the Academy, Sir Joshua Eeynolds, had said to him, " So, 

 Flaxman, I am told you are married ; if so, sir, I tell you, 

 you are ruined for an artist ! " will be read with much 

 interest : 



Oct. 28th, 1782, Wardour Street, 

 "Sm, 



" According to the desire you expressed in the last letter 

 you favoured me with, I have designed some groups of children 

 proper for bas-reliefs to decorate the sides of tea-pots. No. 1 & 2 

 are intended to go intirely round a tea-pot of a flat shape, except 

 where the handle and spout interrupt them. I have therefore made 

 separate stories for each side; the first is ' Blind Man's Buff,' the 

 second is the * Game of Marbles,' 3 & 4 are the ' Triumph of Cupid,' 

 to be disposed in a similar manner on the sides of round & upright 

 tea-pots. When you return the sketches to be modelled from, be 



