1592997943000 1538070219000 Standard Record object-110005235 1753207443013 1560419535000 1753207432602 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005235 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005235 53adab57-2d3e-3a7c-9a02-4e411fecaff2 4 person reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William person reference agent-198634 adlib-agent-198634 0cca4f6a-cd90-3c50-9b54-94771d23f19a Whitehurst, Mr person reference agent-143579 adlib-agent-143579 c32405af-1ece-35c0-b858-f9afd196ebc6 Wedgwood, Josiah content description 2 sheets, 1 folded. Wright 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." Wright 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". Wright 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." Hayley/X/54 1 accession number Hayley/X/54 110005235 priref 110005235 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005235 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005235 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1783 1783 1783-04-26 reference agent-147545 adlib-agent-147545 5e6f0704-813a-3b1d-999f-9cc06c46c2c8 Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby) 1 letter Hayley/X/54 object OBJECT