Accession number
PML 77019.52
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver.
Published
London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1788.
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 Fuseli.
First state.
Plate appeared as frontispiece in Aphorisms on man by the Rev. John Caspar Lavater (London: J. Johnson, 1788).
Plate removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
First state.
Plate appeared as frontispiece in Aphorisms on man by the Rev. John Caspar Lavater (London: J. Johnson, 1788).
Plate removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Description
[1] leaf of plates : engraving ; 12.7 x 8 cm previously mounted 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.
Classification
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