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I am grateful to Helen Langdon for introducing me to Jenny Uglow, author and noted authority on the eighteenth
century. Jenny has bestowed a great favour upon this gallery in finding time from her busy professional life as Editorial
Director of Chatto & Windus to write the outstandingly interesting essay for this catalogue Measureless Caverns: Joseph
Wright and Virgil’s Tomb which had this writer quite entranced. Equally, I must thank Barton (Bart) Thurber, Curator of
European Art at the Hood Museum for the second essay ‘The Amazing and Stupendous Remains of Antiquity’: Joseph Wright
in Italy and Later Reflections onVirgil’sTomb and for sharing his knowledge of the GrandTour at short notice and at a time of
family problems. I ask his forgiveness for repeatedly waiving the‘starting gun’ in an attempt to keep to a tight publication
schedule. Bart is preparing an exhibition scheduled for 2015 entitled Rome and the GrandTour in the Mid-Eighteenth Century.
I take this opportunity of thanking Karin Kyburz at The Witt Library for assistance with comparative image sourcing;
to Rosie Jarvie at Christie’s; to Emmeline Hallmark and Alex Bell of Sotheby’s; to Xavier Bray at Dulwich Picture
Gallery; to Diana Peake at Derby Museum & Art Gallery; to Hugo Chapman and the staff ofThe British Museum Print
Room; to Jennifer Camilleri at The Royal Academy; to Carmen Vendellin at La Salle University Art Gallery; to Mary
Zuber atThe Metropolitan Museum; to David Chesterman and his sons for a sensitive cleaning of theWright; to Rollo
Whately; to Matthew Hollow; to Prudence Cuming Associates; to Felicity Ackroyd; to Jennifer Jackson; to Giacomo
Algranti; to Freddy Godshaw and Peter Zander who led me to the publication and research of Nina Senger to whom I
express my gratitude for documentary information about my father; to Angelo Moranelli and Carlo Nepote; to all at
Fotomec and Tipostampa.

PATRICK MATTHIESEN

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