Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
29-31 July 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/653
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    149 Six Pages from Thornton’s “The Pastorals of Virgil,” con- taining the frontispiece and sixteen woodcuts designed and - engraved by Blake, and the three designed by Blake and cut by others, cut down and mounted, boards, 1821— Proof Impressions of three of the above cuts (nos. 1, 3 and 4 of the series “to face p. 14”), cut down and mounted, in one frame, glazed; from the W. B. Scott collection (2) 150 Eight Proof Impressions, engraved by Blake: Mars, Lucretia, |). ,_. King Alfred, King John, Wat Tyler. Elizabeth, Caius 3// °; Marius, and Cleopatra; from the collection of W. B. Scott, marked with his monogram (8) 151 Ten Engravings, by Blake, from Don Quixote, Grandison 1 of es and Raphael (10) / 152 Ten Engravings, by Blake: Frontispieces to Malkin, Ticket , ,, for Naval Monument, Clarence’s Dream, Dr. Brown, © CLG, (10) 153 Twelve Engravings, by Blake, published by Johnson, 1791, 3 consisting of six Plates designed and engraved for pg~/ _ “Original Stories,’ by Mary Wollstonecroft, and six / Plates, engraved by Blake, 1803, and designed by Maria Flaxman, to illustrate “The Triumphs of Temper” (12) 154 Eleven Engravings, consisting of Lavater, David Simple, and Plates from Scott of Amwell, Ritson’s Songs, and , O ] Cowper’s “'Tame Hares” and “ 'The Good Governess” (11) Z 7 155 Five Engravings, designed and engraved by Blake, 1805, for 4 Hayley’s Ballads (5) 156 Eleven various Engravings, by Blake, consisting of Pericles, 1800, Thomas Hayley, after Flaxman’s medallion, also an impression of the same in red, Michael Angelo, The Graphic Muse, two from Cumberland’s “ Thoughts on Outline,” and four from Wedgwood’s Portland Vase (11) The above Seven Lots are inlaid where necessary and loosely, arranged in uniform cardboard covers. 157 Engravings: “ I found him beneath a tree,” from The Gates of Paradise, 1793 (from the Crewe sale); Adam and the ,,/ /_- Animals, 1802; The Fall of Rosamund, after Stothard, a i 1783 ; Portrait of J. C. Lavater (formerly in the possession of Mrs. Guchrist) ; Job in Prosperity, lithograph on brown paper; The Ancient of days, from Europe, printed in blue, uncoloured, framed and glazed (from the Crewe sale) (6) C 2
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