Accession number
PML 63139
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
Lambeth. Printed by Will Blake 1794 [i.e. 1795].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1972.
Notes
Copy B.
This copy printed about 1795.
One of only 2 copies complete with 28 plates.
Plates measure 37.4 x 27.1 cm.
Printed in light black (except plate 2, printed in light green), on one side of folio leaf.
Probably printed as part of a set once owned by George Romney (see Viscomi, p. 290).
Each plate hand-numbered in ink by Blake at top right corner; order of plates in this copy corresponds to Bentley plates 1-4, 14, 5-7, 10, 12, 8, 11, 22, 13, 9, 15, 16, 18, 17, 19, 24, 20, 21, 23, 25-28.
This copy printed about 1795.
One of only 2 copies complete with 28 plates.
Plates measure 37.4 x 27.1 cm.
Printed in light black (except plate 2, printed in light green), on one side of folio leaf.
Probably printed as part of a set once owned by George Romney (see Viscomi, p. 290).
Each plate hand-numbered in ink by Blake at top right corner; order of plates in this copy corresponds to Bentley plates 1-4, 14, 5-7, 10, 12, 8, 11, 22, 13, 9, 15, 16, 18, 17, 19, 24, 20, 21, 23, 25-28.
Description
[28] plates : ill. (col.) ; 37.4 cm.
Provenance
Possibly acquired by George Romney directly from Blake; inherited by his son John Romney (his estate sale Christie's, 9 May 1834, lot 83, along with a copy of America, probably copy A, to R.H. Evans, dealer); probably Isaac D'Israeli and his son, the Earl of Beaconsfield (his estate sale Sotheby's, 20 March 1882, lot 60, to Ellis and White, dealers); B.B. Macgeorge by 1892 (his sale Sotheby's, 1 July 1924, lot 117 to Gabriel Wells, dealer); A. Edward Newton (his estate sale Parke-Bernet, 16 April 1941, lot 131) to A.S.W. Rosenbach, dealer); and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne (see her 1971 cat., no. 9).
Binding
Matted. Earlier binding with Newton bookplate retained.
Classification
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