“The Death of the Strong Wicked Man.” A single plate from Robert Blair's The Grave

by William. Blair Blake, Robert, separate plate

$875 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

London: Ackermann, 1813. Single plate, etching on wove unwatermarked paper, recently cleaned. § From the second 4to edition, this is one of the best known plates in the series. It was designed by Blake and engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti. Bentley, Blake Books, 435D. In October 1805, Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating Robert Blair's The Grave, a popular Graveyard

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