Accession number
PML 62441
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London : Author and printer, William Blake, ca. 1790]
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1972.
Notes
Copy C.
No watermarks.
Relief etching, printed in raw umber with added watercolor.
Printed in 1789 and 1790.
No watermarks.
Relief etching, printed in raw umber with added watercolor.
Printed in 1789 and 1790.
Description
8 plates printed on 8 sheets; ill. 29 cm.
Provenance
Sotheby's sale 19 Dec. 1853, lot 300 to the dealer Kerslake (Bentley supplement); Thomas Gaisford (bookplate), sale of his books Sotheby's 23 April 1890, lot 185; Quaritch ("Collated & Perfect Aprl [sic] 24th 1890 J.T." on back flyleaf) for its Rough List 104 (May 1890), lot 456 and Rough List 109 (Feb. 1891), lot 91; "W.A. White, 20 March 1891" on front flyleaf; John W. Frothingham; his daughter Elizabeth W. Frothingham (presentation card laid in) gave it to White's daughter, Mrs. William Emerson; sold posthumously 19 May 1958, lot 1 at Sotheby's to Fleming; purchased by Mrs. Landon K. Thorne; given to Morgan Library.
Binding
Brown morocco by Rivière.
Classification
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