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Designs for Thornton's 3rd edition of the Pastorals of Virgil. [print].

Accession number
PML 16490
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[S.l. : s.n., 1821]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909
Notes
17 (of 20) woodcuts probably cut from the plates as printed in the book.
Plates appeared in The pastorals of Virgil ... by Robert John Thornton, third ed. (London: F.C. & J. Rivingtons, & others, 1821).
Plates K.Bi-Bxiii; Bxvii-Bxx.
Proofs for 7 of the woodcuts from the Palmer collection added later: B.ii, B.iv-vi, B.ix, B.xii, B.xiii.
Description
[17] + [7] leaves of plates
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan; Palmer collection (proofs, acquired in 1934).
Binding
Quarter black morocco case.
Classification
Department