Accession number
PML 3070.1
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London : s.n.], [ca. 1838]
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
No text.
Blake died before the engravings commissioned by John Linnell were finished. According to Linnell family records, small editions were printed in 1838 and 1892. Twenty sets were printed for Lessing Rosenwald in 1954 from the original copperplates, which he had purchased from the Linnell family in 1937. See Bentley.
Printed on India paper.
Removed from Divine comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston, 1869 (PML 3070). Now shelved with another set of the plates, PML 950.
Blake died before the engravings commissioned by John Linnell were finished. According to Linnell family records, small editions were printed in 1838 and 1892. Twenty sets were printed for Lessing Rosenwald in 1954 from the original copperplates, which he had purchased from the Linnell family in 1937. See Bentley.
Printed on India paper.
Removed from Divine comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston, 1869 (PML 3070). Now shelved with another set of the plates, PML 950.
Description
[7] leaves of plates : engraving ; 33 x 47 cm.
Provenance
From the collections of E.G. Asay, Theodore Irwin, and Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Loose, in blue half-morocco case with PML 950.
Classification
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Department