Accession number
PML 63138 plate 1
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
Date from Viscomi's essay in Illuminated books.
Plate 1 from Copy F, one of two known color-printed copies, consisting of eleven plates of the complete edition, with text and outlines in orangish or reddish brown.
Plate 1 from Copy F, one of two known color-printed copies, consisting of eleven plates of the complete edition, with text and outlines in orangish or reddish brown.
Description
1 leaf : illustration (relief etching, color printed with hand tinting) ; image approximately 17.1 x 11.9 cm on leaf 38 x 27 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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