Frontispiece “Pericles” to: An Essay on Sculpture: In a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman

by William Hayley, separate plate

$375 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Signed

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1800. Frontispiece, a little browned around the edges. Engraved by Blake but not signed. § Blake’s first and perhaps happiest collaboration with his patron William Hayley, one that also included Blake’s friend of many years, John Flaxman. Bentley, Blake Books, 467. Essick, Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, XXXIX. Item #100890

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