Accession number
PML 77019.91-96
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver.
Published
Chichester : Printed by J. Seagrave, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London, 1803.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Thorne Family and Fellows Fund, in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1976.
Notes
Six plates engraved by William Blake after Maria Flaxman.
Plates appeared in The triumphs of temper. A poem: in six cantos. By William Hayley, from 1803, 12th corrected edition.
Plates for Canto I, verse 29 (77019.91); Canto II, Verse 471 (77019.92); Canto III, Verse 201 (77019.93); Canto IV, Verse 328 (77019.94); Canto V, Verse 43 (77019.95); and Canto VI, Verse 294 (77019.96).
These plates have been trimmed below the artist/engraver names so do not include the date and Cadell and Davies identification.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Plates appeared in The triumphs of temper. A poem: in six cantos. By William Hayley, from 1803, 12th corrected edition.
Plates for Canto I, verse 29 (77019.91); Canto II, Verse 471 (77019.92); Canto III, Verse 201 (77019.93); Canto IV, Verse 328 (77019.94); Canto V, Verse 43 (77019.95); and Canto VI, Verse 294 (77019.96).
These plates have been trimmed below the artist/engraver names so do not include the date and Cadell and Davies identification.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Description
[6] leaves of plates : engraving ; 13.5 cm; inlaid to: 33 cm
Provenance
Possibly Allan Cunningham (letters once laid in are addressed to him); William H. Herriman (bookplate); purchased from the American Academy in Rome.
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