Accession number
PML 9948
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London : Author and printer, William Blake, 1789]
Credit line
Purchase; Pierpont Morgan; 1906.
Notes
Copy a.
For a description of the collection and extended provenance, see Bentley, p. 131 ff.
From a collection of early engravings, proofs, drawings, and letters, possibly bound during the artist's lifetime.
Plate marks 15.4 or 15.5 x 10.5 or 11 cm
Plates 9948.1, 9948.2, and 9948.3 have been heavily trimmed.
Prints as follows (Bentley plate numbers): 9948.1 (pl. 2)--9948.2 (pl 3)--9948.25 (pl. 4)--9948.26 (pl. 5)--9948.23 (pl. 7)
Proof copy, printed in black in 1789, this copy being an early version without plates 1 and 8.
For a description of the collection and extended provenance, see Bentley, p. 131 ff.
From a collection of early engravings, proofs, drawings, and letters, possibly bound during the artist's lifetime.
Plate marks 15.4 or 15.5 x 10.5 or 11 cm
Plates 9948.1, 9948.2, and 9948.3 have been heavily trimmed.
Prints as follows (Bentley plate numbers): 9948.1 (pl. 2)--9948.2 (pl 3)--9948.25 (pl. 4)--9948.26 (pl. 5)--9948.23 (pl. 7)
Proof copy, printed in black in 1789, this copy being an early version without plates 1 and 8.
Description
5 plates printed on 5 sheets; ill. 30 cm
Provenance
From the collections of Henry White (sale Sotheby, 22 April, 1902) and Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Matted, in case. Previously in 1/4 brown morocco case lettered: "William Blake. Book of Thel, etc." Disbound in 1931.
Classification
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