{"admin":{"added":1592997943000,"created":1538070219000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-110005235","indexed":1753207443013,"modified":1560419535000,"processed":1753207432602,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-110005235","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005235","uuid":"53adab57-2d3e-3a7c-9a02-4e411fecaff2","version":4},"agents":[{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-198487","uid":"adlib-agent-198487","uuid":"4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6"},"summary_title":"Hayley, William"},{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-198634","uid":"adlib-agent-198634","uuid":"0cca4f6a-cd90-3c50-9b54-94771d23f19a"},"summary_title":"Whitehurst, Mr"},{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-143579","uid":"adlib-agent-143579","uuid":"c32405af-1ece-35c0-b858-f9afd196ebc6"},"summary_title":"Wedgwood, Josiah"}],"content":{"description":[{"type":"content description","value":"2 sheets, 1 folded.\n\nWright has intended to write to Hayley for some time, \"but I find so much employment for my Eyes in the day with the pencil, I have no relish for the pen at night.\" He thanks Hayley \"for informing the public of my intention of painting the Action before Gibraltar,which I find many little dirty souls are endeavouring to suppress by saying I come to late to get instruction. If it is published, pray say in what paper, for I can't learn that any of my friends have seen it.\"\n\nWright then describes how he has nearly finished a painting of Hero embracing Leander that Hayley saw in London, and writes how Josiah Wedgwood has approved his sketch of the Corinthian Maid \"& has commissioned me to paint it for him\". Wedgwood has also requested a companion picture and Wright asks Hayley for suggestions for the subject. Wright says he has finished Margaret's Ghost (see Hayley\/X\/53) but Wedgwood \"dislikes the subject\".\n\nWright describes how during his most recent visit to London he finally \"got sight of the drawings of Gibraltar in a different point of view, but all independent of the Action for they were made in the years 40 & 44. That of the Action Mr. Whitehurst says was withheld, he asked for it repeatedly but there was no such thing to be seen.\""}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Hayley\/X\/54","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Hayley\/X\/54"},{"priref":"110005235","type":"priref","value":"110005235"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005235","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005235"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1783,"latest":1783,"value":"1783-04-26"}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-147545","uid":"adlib-agent-147545","uuid":"5e6f0704-813a-3b1d-999f-9cc06c46c2c8"},"summary_title":"Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby)"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"value":"1 letter"}]},"summary_title":"Hayley\/X\/54","title":[{"value":"Joseph Wright to William Hayley: letter"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}