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[Frontispiece portrait of William Blake] [print].

Accession number
PML 77019.2
Creator
Phillips, Thomas, 1770-1845.
Published
[London : Published by R.H. Cromek, 64, Newman St. May 1st. 1808]
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Thorne Family and Fellows Fund, in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1976.
Notes
Title: "William Blake".
At left: "Painted by T. Philips R.A."
At right: "Engraved by L Schiavonetti VA".
Fourth state, 1813 [1870] small paper folio and portfolio, 1926 (See Essick & Paley). Inscription without periods after L, V, A in right signature. Without imprint; trimmed.
Plate removed from Allan Cunningham's Life of William Blake (Herriman album).
Plate appeared in The Grave by Robert Blair (London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, for the proprietor, R.H. Cromek, ..., 1808).
Description
[1] leaf of plates : engraving ; 33.1 x 24.2 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
Department