Accession number:
PML 77019.91-96
Published:
Chichester : Printed by J. Seagrave, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London, 1803.
Description:
[6] leaves of plates : engraving ; 13.5 cm; inlaid to: 33 cm
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of The Thorne Family and Fellows Fund, in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1976.
Notes:
Six plates engraved by William Blake after Maria Flaxman.
Plates appeared in The triumphs of temper. A poem: in six cantos. By William Hayley, from 1803, 12th corrected edition.
Plates for Canto I, verse 29 (77019.91); Canto II, Verse 471 (77019.92); Canto III, Verse 201 (77019.93); Canto IV, Verse 328 (77019.94); Canto V, Verse 43 (77019.95); and Canto VI, Verse 294 (77019.96).
These plates have been trimmed below the artist/engraver names so do not include the date and Cadell and Davies identification.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Provenance:
Possibly Allan Cunningham (letters once laid in are addressed to him); William H. Herriman (bookplate); purchased from the American Academy in Rome.
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