Accession number
PML 77019.46
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver.
Published
[Chichester : T. Payne, 1809]
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Thorne Family and Fellows Fund, in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1976.
Notes
One plate engraved by William Blake after Romney.
Plate appeared in The life of George Romney by William Hayley (Chichester: T. Payne, 1809).
Title: Sketch of a shipwreck after Romney. Engraved by Blake. Imprint: Published April 14th. 1809 by Thomas Payne, Pall Mall.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Plate appeared in The life of George Romney by William Hayley (Chichester: T. Payne, 1809).
Title: Sketch of a shipwreck after Romney. Engraved by Blake. Imprint: Published April 14th. 1809 by Thomas Payne, Pall Mall.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Description
[1] leaf of plates : engraving ; 23.8 x 30.4 cm; mounted: 33 cm
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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