Burdett, Wedgwood and Bentley.

The article features several letters written by the British artists Josiah Wedgwood, Thomas Bentley, and Peter Perez Burdett. It presents the portions of the correspondence that relate directly to Wedgwood and Bentley's dealings with Burdett. It indicates that the letters emphasized the full picture of their negotiations over the employment of the new technique in transfer printing on pottery. It is noted that the individual letters in the three-cornered correspondence has been partially absorbed by scholars writing on the early history of aquatint. The opening letter in the correspondence offers the earliest date of Burdett's aquatint invention, which was addressed to Bentley.