BIB_ID
247074
Accession number
MA 6334
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Display Date
1804 March 12.
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp, in memory of Grace Lansing Lambert, 2005.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.6 cm
Notes
The place of writing has been inferred from biographical information.
Signed "Will Blake."
Address panel with postmarks: "To / William Hayley Esqr / Felpham near / Chichester / Sussex."
Lady Hesketh was William Cowper's cousin.
Signed "Will Blake."
Address panel with postmarks: "To / William Hayley Esqr / Felpham near / Chichester / Sussex."
Lady Hesketh was William Cowper's cousin.
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's, 20 May 1878 (lot 7, Waller); afterwards in collection of Joseph Mayer of Liverpool; sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1887 (in lot 189, Robson); later in the collection of H. Buxton Forman, and sold with his library at Anderson Galleries, New York, 15 March 1920 (lot 69); in 1925 in the possession of Arthur F. Egner, New Jersey; Mary E. Malone; purchased in 1976 by Charles Ryskamp.
Summary
Saying he cannot send proofs before Saturday ("Engraving is eternal work"), and that Lady Hesketh's "copy of Cowper's letters ought to be printed in letters of Gold & ornamented with Jewels of Heaven Havelock Eden & all the countries where Jewels abound"; reflecting on the occupation of engraving: "I curse & bless Engraving alternately because it takes so much time & is so intractable. tho capable of such beauty & perfection."
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