Title:
William Cowper, Author of "The Task"
Maker(s):
Blake, William; printmaker; British artist, 1757-1827
Lawrence, Thomas; draughtsman; British artist, 1769-1830
Category:
Name:
print
Date:
1802 — 1803
Designed 1802, published 1803
School/Style:
British
Production
Note:
Frontispiece to the second volume of The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cooper, Esqr., with an introductory letter, to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, by William Hayley, Esqr., Vol. I-III, Chichester: Printed by J. Seagrave, for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, London, 1803-1804.
Technique:
stipple
Material(s):
black carbon ink; medium
paper; support
Dimension(s):
height, 260, mm
width, 189, mm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1985-04; Keynes, Geoffrey
Acquisition Credit:
Allocated by H.M. Treasury through the Minister of the Arts, accepted in lieu of capital taxes
Inscription(s):
signature; plate lower left; printed; T Lawrence R A: Ad vivum del: 1793
signature; plate lower right; printed; W. Blake sculp 1802
title; image lower centre; printed; William Cowper - / Author of "The Task"
Alternative
Number:
Bentley; 468.3; 1977
Documentation:
Bindman, David. 1970. William Blake: catalogue of the Blake collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): W. Heffer and Sons Ltd.
No 636
Related Object(s):
P.558-1985; William Cowper
P.561-1985; William Cowper, Author of "The Task"
P.562-1985; The Weather-house, The Peasants Nest, Cowper's tame Hares, Puss Tiney & Bess
P.563-1985; The Weather-house, The Peasants Nest, Cowper's tame Hares, Puss Tiney & Bess
P.564-1985; Mrs Cowper, Mother of the Poet
Accession:
Object Number: P.560-1985
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 31438; input: 2001-07-03; modified: 2008-02-28)
Permanent
Identifier:
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