L30/11/122/60

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19 Jun 1774

From: 1774 To: 1774

Wedgwood's exhibition of service for Czarina; want to have your drawings included, as not quite complete; have you them at Wrest, or in your great book locked up in London? Those I should wish for are the general view from the gravel walk at Wimpole which took in the water, bridge and tower; and the different views of the water round the garden at Wrest; small views at Wimpole from the head of the reed pond down the bank to the other water; and the piece you took last year of the window etc. at the ruin; also the bath and room at Wrest which you took lately. The service is really curious and very entertaining to see; the whole does not make a show nor strike with beauty, being only painted with the black colour heightened with a purplish cast, but each piece separately extremely pretty and generally very well executed. The Empress' directions all from herself; she chose the colours and ordered the views to be confined to this island and to contain all that could be of Gothic remains, of natural views and of improved scenes and ornaments in parks and gardens, which they say are what she wants to collect and imitate.

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CORRESPONDENCE, Josiah & Sons Limited Wedgwood, Wimpole Hall