Third plate  Thomas Hayley in: An Essay on Sculpture: In a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman

by William Hayley, separate plate

$595 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Signed

London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1800. Plate facing p. 163, a little browned around the edges. Engraved by Blake, 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. This is Blake’s only illustration of Hayley. The book has become very scarce and the prints are rarely if ever available separately. Bentley, Blake Books, 467. Essick,

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