15929979430001538070219000Standard Recordobject-110005235168667996700715604195350001686679273393fitz-onlineadlib-object-110005235https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11000523553adab57-2d3e-3a7c-9a02-4e411fecaff24personreferenceagent-198487adlib-agent-1984874dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6Hayley, Williampersonreferenceagent-198634adlib-agent-1986340cca4f6a-cd90-3c50-9b54-94771d23f19aWhitehurst, Mrpersonreferenceagent-143579adlib-agent-143579c32405af-1ece-35c0-b858-f9afd196ebc6Wedgwood, Josiahcontent description2 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/541accession numberHayley/X/54110005235priref110005235urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005235https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005235referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museum178317831783-04-26referenceagent-147545adlib-agent-1475455e6f0704-813a-3b1d-999f-9cc06c46c2c8Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby)1 letterHayley/X/54Joseph Wright to William Hayley: letterobject
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