Accession number:
PML 77019.44, etc.
Published:
[London] : Publish'd by C & F Rivington ..., 1804.
Description:
[2] leaves of plates : engraving ; 20.7 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:
Plates appeared in The plays of William Shakespeare, ed. Alexander Chalmers (10 and 9 vol. issues): London: F.C. and J. Rivington, et al., 1805; 9 vol issue: London: J. Nichols and Son, et al., 1811.
Plate for vol. vii, King Henry VIII, Act IV, Sc. II (PML 77019.97); title: Katharine, Griffiths & Patience .... Signatures: Fuseli. inv [left], Blake. sculp [right].Imprint: Publish'd May 12. 1804, by F & C. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard.
Plate for vol. x, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Sc. 1 (PML 77019.44); title: Enter Apothecary .... Signatures: H. Fuseli. R.A. inv. [left], W. Blake. sc [right]. Imprint: Publish'd by C & F Rivington London Jan 14.1804.
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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