Accession number
PML 77019.16, etc.
Creator
Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver.
Published
London : J. Johnson, 1797.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Thorne Family and Fellows Fund, in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1976.
Notes
Plates engraved by William Blake after untraced drawings ascribed to Henry Fuseli.
Plates appeared in A new and improved History of England. By Charles Allen (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1798).
Plates: "Alfred and the Neat-herd's Wife," "King John absolved by Pandulph," "Wat Tyler and the Tax-gatherer," and "Queen Elizabeth and Essex," all imprints trimmed.
All plates trimmed.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Plates appeared in A new and improved History of England. By Charles Allen (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1798).
Plates: "Alfred and the Neat-herd's Wife," "King John absolved by Pandulph," "Wat Tyler and the Tax-gatherer," and "Queen Elizabeth and Essex," all imprints trimmed.
All plates trimmed.
Plates removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Description
[4] leaves of plates : engraving ; 16.5 cm; 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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