Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

For the sexes : the gates of Paradise.

Accession number
PML 63936
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[S.l. : s.n., ca. 1825]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1973.
Notes
Copy D.
Engraved throughout.
Plates 17-19 with ink numbers at lower right supposedly added by Blake.
Watermarks, J Whatman/1825, leaves 3, 8, 16, 17.
For complete history of sales and ownership, see Bentley, p. 202.
Viscomi estimates that this copy was printed between 1825 and 1827 (p. 367)
Description
[21] plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Provenance
Possibly Frederick Tatham; Thomas Boddington 1833 (inscription); his sale Sotheby's 4 Nov. 1895, lot 94 to Quaritch; then to W. A. White 18 Nov.'95 (note on front fly leaf); [unidentified bookplate]; A.S.W. Rosenbach, by 1929; Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, after 1944.
Binding
Calf spine; marbled boards. In modern case.
Classification
Department