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.

A descriptive catalogue of pictures : poetical and historical inventions painted by William Blake in water colours, being the ancient method of fresco painting restored : and drawings, for public inspection, and for sale by private contract.

Accession number
PML 62443
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
London : Printed by D.N. Shury for J. Blake, 1809.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1972.
Notes
Copy N
Collation: [A]² B-F⁶ G⁴.
No corrections on t.p. or p. 64.
Description
iv, 66, [2] p. ; 20 cm.
Provenance
According to Bentley, this may be the copy given by Maria Denman (Flaxman's sister-in-law) on 1 Oct. 1842 to Crabb Robinson; E.J.E. Tunmer (sale Sotheby's, 15 June 1937, lot 346); Messrs. Robinson offered it in March, 1938; "Two N.Y. Private Collectors" (O.T. Bradley) (Parke-Bernet, 6 Nov. 1944, lot 78); a New York collector (Parke-Bernet, 4 Nov. l946, lot 46); a deceased New York collector (Parke-Bernet, 29 Jan. 1952, lot 51); Robinson firm sold to Dr. B.E. Juel-Jensen (8 March 1953); sold by him to Blackwells in 1959; Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Binding
Brown cloth, in half green morocco case.
Classification
Department