Accession number
PML 63138 plate 1b
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[Lambeth] : Printed by Will[ia]m Blake, 1793 [i.e. ca. 1794]
Credit line
Gift; Mrs. Landon K. Thorne; 1972.
Notes
One of three plates accompanying Copy F, which are from another edition of the work, text and outlines printed in green, with watercolors added by hand.
Date from Viscomi's essay in Illuminated books.
This plate is cited by Bentley as plate 1b.
Date from Viscomi's essay in Illuminated books.
This plate is cited by Bentley as plate 1b.
Description
1 leaf : illustration (relief etching, hand-colored) ; image approximately 17.1 x 11.9 cm on leaf 37.5 x 27.2 cm
Provenance
Formerly owned by Isaac Disraeli and his son Benjamin Disraeli; Bernard Buchanan Macgeorge; Paul Hyde Bonner; Mrs. Landon K. Thorne (in-house files).
Summary
Frontispiece for Visions of the daughters of Albion.
Binding
Disbound and matted, untrimmed with stab holes remaining; Disraeli binding retained.
Classification
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