Accession number
PML 77019.73, etc.
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver.
Published
London : John Stockdale, 1793.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Thorne Family and Fellows Fund, in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1976.
Notes
Six plates (of twelve engraved by William Blake).
Plates appeared in Fables by John Gay, 2 vol. London: John Stockdale, 1793, reprinted in 1811.
All plates after designs by William Kent, John Wootton, and H. Gravelot from the first edition of 1727.
Plates: Fable XVI, the Pin and the Needle (after Kent) (PML 77019.74); Fable XXVIII, the Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud (after Kent) (PML 77019.73); Fable I, the Dog and the Fox (after Gravelot) (PML 77019.75); Fable XII, Pan and Fortune (after Gravelot) (PML 77019.76); and Fable XLI, the Owl and the Farmer (after Wootton) (PML 77019.77)
Plate 77019.77 is on different paper stock, heavily trimmed.
Plates without titles or imprint.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Plates appeared in Fables by John Gay, 2 vol. London: John Stockdale, 1793, reprinted in 1811.
All plates after designs by William Kent, John Wootton, and H. Gravelot from the first edition of 1727.
Plates: Fable XVI, the Pin and the Needle (after Kent) (PML 77019.74); Fable XXVIII, the Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud (after Kent) (PML 77019.73); Fable I, the Dog and the Fox (after Gravelot) (PML 77019.75); Fable XII, Pan and Fortune (after Gravelot) (PML 77019.76); and Fable XLI, the Owl and the Farmer (after Wootton) (PML 77019.77)
Plate 77019.77 is on different paper stock, heavily trimmed.
Plates without titles or imprint.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Description
[5] leaves of plates : engraving ; 21.6 x 19.6 cm; inlaid to: 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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