The Life of Josiah Wedgwood: From His Private Correspondence And Family ...
The Life of Josiah Wedgwood: From His Private Correspondence And Family ...
Eliza Meteyard
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BARBAULD.— MATER COL- LECnOX. * Mr. Y'ates, in bis * Memorials of Priestley/ says that this medallion, which was from a design by either Flax man or Hackwood, was given by Mr. Wedgwood to Miss Aikin VOI^ I. * about the year 1706.* But this is far too early. To none of the cameos can be assigned an earlier date than 1769 or 1770. In 1765 Flaxman was onlv eleven vears old. Digitized by CjOOQ IC 322 LITERATURE AND POLITICS. Chap. VIIL companion and former schoolfellow, to Mr. Boardman, the partner... of Bentley, and eventually the repre- sentative in Liverpool of the firm of Wedgwood and Bentley. literature and politics are subjects constantly referred to in this early correspondence. Wedgwood has been reading Thomson's poem on ' liberty/ and thinks Bentley's warm encomiums fiiUy warranted. He admires the poet for his love of ancient art — an admiration natural to one who was hunself so great an artist— and he joins with him in thinking that nations prosper only so long as they are politically free.
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