Accession number
PML 58636
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Published
[London] : The Author & Printer W Blake, 1789.
Credit line
Bequest of Tessie Jones in memory of her father, Herschel V. Jones, 1968.
Notes
Date from Viscomi's Blake, p. 250.
This is copy D, complete with 31 illustrations on 17 leaves: (Keynes' numbers) 1, 2, 3, 10-11, 28, 29-30, 31, 9, 8, 4, 5-7, 22, 23, 14, 15, 16-17, 20, 21, 12, 13, 18-19, 24, 25-26, 27.
Printed text and outlines in yellow ochre and raw sienna; watercolor added by hand.
Assembled and colored by Blake for John Flaxman (see Viscomi, p. 298).
This is copy D, complete with 31 illustrations on 17 leaves: (Keynes' numbers) 1, 2, 3, 10-11, 28, 29-30, 31, 9, 8, 4, 5-7, 22, 23, 14, 15, 16-17, 20, 21, 12, 13, 18-19, 24, 25-26, 27.
Printed text and outlines in yellow ochre and raw sienna; watercolor added by hand.
Assembled and colored by Blake for John Flaxman (see Viscomi, p. 298).
Description
[17] leaves : ill. (relief printed etchings, watercolor) ; 17 cm.
Provenance
Formerly owned by John Flaxman; his wife Anna Flaxman (signature); John Pearson; Herschel V Jones; his daughter Tessie Jones.
Binding
Citron morocco, inlaid with red and green morocco, gold-tooled, with dentelles, by F. Bedford; in an olive morocco case.
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