never yet, since my return to London, had the time or grace to call on me. Mrs. Flaxman and her sister give also their testimony to my likeness of Romney. Mr. Flaxman I have not yet had an opportunity of consulting about it, but soon will. I enclose likewise the academical Correspondence of Mr. Hoare[1] the painter, whose note to me I also enclose. For I did but express to him my desire of sending you a copy of his work, and the day after I received it, with the note expressing his pleasure in your wish to see it. You would be much delighted with the man, as I assure myself you will be with his work.
The plates of Cowper's monument[2] are both in great forwardness, and you shall have proofs in another week. I assure you that I will not spare pains, and am myself very much satisfied that I shall do my duty and produce two elegant plates. There is, however, a great deal of work on them that must and will have time.
"Busy, busy, busy, I bustle along,
Mounted upon warm Phœbus' ray.
Thro' the heavenly throng."
- ↑ Prince Hoare, painter, studied in Rome under Mengs in 1776, with Fuseli and Northcote for companions. The book alluded to is the Extracts from a Correspondence with the Academies of Vienna and St. Petersburg on the Cultivation of Paintings Sculpture, and Architecture, published when he was made Foreign Secretary of the Royal Academy in 1799 (see Gilchrist (1880), vol. i. p. 205).
- ↑ See note 1, p. 133.
