Accession number
PML 17559
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London : 1790]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
27 plates printed on 15 leaves.
A Song of Liberty: 3 plates on 2 leaves at end.
Barely visible through the greenish black ink below the image of serpent at foot of leaf 11 verso (Bentley pl. 20): "Opposition is True Frendship".
Copy C.
One of four copies printed in 1790. See Viscomi.
Printed in bluish green with added watercolor.
Relief etchings; added watercolor.
Title and Argument printed on rectos only; text: 22 plates on 11 leaves.
A Song of Liberty: 3 plates on 2 leaves at end.
Barely visible through the greenish black ink below the image of serpent at foot of leaf 11 verso (Bentley pl. 20): "Opposition is True Frendship".
Copy C.
One of four copies printed in 1790. See Viscomi.
Printed in bluish green with added watercolor.
Relief etchings; added watercolor.
Title and Argument printed on rectos only; text: 22 plates on 11 leaves.
Description
[15] leaves of plates ; ill. ; 28 cm
Provenance
Sold by L.F. le Beaumonte of Geneva, Sotheby's 18 May 1892, lot 1,192 to James S. Bain, dealer; acquired by Robert Hoe (bookplate), his catalogue 1895; sold posthumously at Anderson Galleries, 25 April 1911, lot 391, to Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Tree calf, gilt ornamental frame; in quarter brown morocco case.
Classification
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