Accession number
PML 77019.98, etc.
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver.
Published
London : F.C. & J. Rivingtons, ..., 1821.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Thorne Family and Fellows Fund, in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1976.
Notes
Twenty-four images on 17 leaves.
Seventeen wood engravings designed and engraved by Blake (77019.98-106)
Six line and stipple engravings, one of antique coins, five of busts of Romans, signed "Blake del et Sculp" have the imprint: "London, Published by Dr. Thornton, 1821." (77019.109-114)
Plates appeared in The pastorals of Virgil; with a course of English reading adapted for schools ... by Robert John Thornton. Third edition. (London: F.C. & J. Rivingtons, 1821).
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Seventeen wood engravings designed and engraved by Blake (77019.98-106)
Six line and stipple engravings, one of antique coins, five of busts of Romans, signed "Blake del et Sculp" have the imprint: "London, Published by Dr. Thornton, 1821." (77019.109-114)
Plates appeared in The pastorals of Virgil; with a course of English reading adapted for schools ... by Robert John Thornton. Third edition. (London: F.C. & J. Rivingtons, 1821).
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Description
[17] leaves of plates : engravings ; size varies, 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.
Classification
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