. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. I here engrave from a letter in my own possession, ThomasBentley. The letter from which this autograph is copied, isaddressed to My dear Friend, Mr. Josiah AVedgwood,at Etruria, &c. In connection with this autograph I givein the following illustration an engraving of the beautifulmedallion of Bentley, produced by AVedgwood as a com-panion, probably, to his own, from an example in my owncollection. T
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. I here engrave from a letter in my own possession, ThomasBentley. The letter from which this autograph is copied, isaddressed to My dear Friend, Mr. Josiah AVedgwood,at Etruria, &c. In connection with this autograph I givein the following illustration an engraving of the beautifulmedallion of Bentley, produced by AVedgwood as a com-panion, probably, to his own, from an example in my owncollection. The bust, it will be seen, is remarkably boldand fine, and must have been the work of an artist of nocommon order. In connection with this medallion, it will be interesting 166 THE WEDGWOODS. io note that a portrait of Thomas Bentley was painted byWright, of Derby, and is now preserved at Linley Wood. In. Wrights diary the painting of this portrait is thus entered,under the year 1777 :— Copy of Mr. Bentley, , £ also painted a portrait of Miss Bentley (full),£31 10s. In another chaj^ter I shall show that Thomas Bentley,about whom too little has hitherto been known, and con-cerning whom so many errors have been perpetuated, was anative of Derbyshire, and a member, doubtless, of the oldfamily of that name long connected with that county. CHAPTER VIII. DsLAKD NAVIGATION.—PROPOSED GRAND TRUNK CANAL.—BRIND-LEYs plan.—DUKE OF BRIDGWATERs CANAL.—MEETINGIN FAVOUR OF THE GRAND TRUNK.—JOSIAH WEDGWOODsLIBERAL OFFER.—STATE OF THE POTTERY DISTRICT.—WANTOF COMMUNICATION.—PACK-HORSES.—CLAY, FLINT, LEAD, SALT, IRON, ETC.—RICHARD WHITWORTH AND HIS IDEAS. STATE OF THE PEOPLE IN BURSLEM.—REV. JOHN WESLEY.—HIS FIRST VISIT TO THE POTTERIES.—IS PELTED WHILEPREACHING.—WEDGWOOD CUTS THE FIRST SOD OF THEGRAND TRUNK CANAL. WONDER EXCITED AT BRINDLEYs OPERATIONS—Wedgw
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