Accession number
PML 77019
Creator
Cunningham, Allan, 1784-1842.
Published
London, 1830.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Thorne Family and Fellows Fund, in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1976.
Notes
Calligraphic title page dated London, 1830.
Extra illustrated volume of the life of William Blake from The lives of the most eminent British painters and sculptors by Allan Cunningham, including plates from various works by and about Blake.
Album has been disbound.
All Blake items are printed in brown.
Some printings are posthumous.
Many plates laid in have been given separate Corsair records.
Two manuscript letters have been transferred to the Literary & Historical Manuscripts dept.: Bernard Barton to Cunningham, 1830 (now MA 3161) and John Varley to Cunningham (now MA 3235).
Contains three posthumously printed Blake plates from America: (12=77019.151; 13=77019.152; 14=77019.149) and one facsimile: (77019.123).
Portrait of Blake after painting by T. Phillips, engraved by L. Schiavonetti as frontispiece.
Portrait of Blake after painting by T. Phillips, engraved by W.C. Edwards, inlaid in calligraphic title page.
Portrait of Blake in profile after portrait by John Linnell, 1827, engraved by C.H. Jeens.
Portrait of John Flaxman after painting by L. Jackson, engraved by C. Turner.
Extra illustrated volume of the life of William Blake from The lives of the most eminent British painters and sculptors by Allan Cunningham, including plates from various works by and about Blake.
Album has been disbound.
All Blake items are printed in brown.
Some printings are posthumous.
Many plates laid in have been given separate Corsair records.
Two manuscript letters have been transferred to the Literary & Historical Manuscripts dept.: Bernard Barton to Cunningham, 1830 (now MA 3161) and John Varley to Cunningham (now MA 3235).
Contains three posthumously printed Blake plates from America: (12=77019.151; 13=77019.152; 14=77019.149) and one facsimile: (77019.123).
Portrait of Blake after painting by T. Phillips, engraved by L. Schiavonetti as frontispiece.
Portrait of Blake after painting by T. Phillips, engraved by W.C. Edwards, inlaid in calligraphic title page.
Portrait of Blake in profile after portrait by John Linnell, 1827, engraved by C.H. Jeens.
Portrait of John Flaxman after painting by L. Jackson, engraved by C. Turner.
Description
1 v. (expanded to 152 leaves) ; 35 cm
Provenance
Possibly Allan Cunningham (letters once laid in are addressed to him); William H. Herriman (bookplate); purchased from the American Academy in Rome.
Binding
Three-quarter red morocco, stamped: Bound by A W Bain, all edges gilt, disbound. Some items matted; others in folders.
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