Mrs Cowper, Mother of the Poet

Blake, William (printmaker)

Heins, Dirck (John Theodore, Sr.) (draughtsman)

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Title/s

Mrs Cowper, Mother of the Poet

Maker/s

Blake, William (printmaker) British artist, 1757-1827

Heins, Dirck (John Theodore, Sr.) (draughtsman) British artist, 1697-1756

Category

print

Name

print

School/Style

British

Production Notes

Illustration (p. 4) to the first 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/s

engraving

Material/s

black carbon ink (medium)
paper (support)

Dimensions

height: 262 mm
width: 196 mm

Date

1802 to 1803

Provenance

bequeathed: Keynes, Geoffrey 1985-04 (Prints bequeathed by Keynes, Geoffrey)

Allocated by H.M. Treasury through the Minister of the Arts, accepted in lieu of capital taxes

Inscriptions/Marks

1. Position: plate lower left
   Type: signature
   Method: printed
   Content: D. Heins Pinx
   
2. Position: plate lower centre
   Type: title
   Method: printed
   Content: Mrs COWPER / Mother of the Poet
   
3. Position: plate lower right
   Type: signature
   Method: printed
   Content: W Blake sculp
   
4. Position: lower centre
   Type: address
   Method: printed
   Content: Publish'd Novembr. 5. 1802 by J. Johnson St Pauls Church Yard
   

Standard print ref/s

Bentley 468.2
Bentley Jr., G. E.
(1977) Blake books: annotated catalogues of William Blake's writings , Oxford : Clarendon Press

Documentation

1. Bindman, David (1970) William Blake: catalogue of the Blake collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): W. Heffer and Sons Ltd.
   [comments: No 636]

Accession Number

P.564-1985 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 31470; Input Date: 2001-07-03 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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