Frontispiece

Cromek, Robert Hartley (printmaker)

Blake, William (draughtsman)

Paye, Richard Morton (draughtsman)

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Title/s

Frontispiece

A Father's Memoirs of His Child

Maker/s

Cromek, Robert Hartley (printmaker) British printmaker, 1771-1812

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

Paye, Richard Morton (draughtsman) British artist, op.1773-, d.1821

Category

print

Name

print

School/Style

British

Production Notes

Frontispiece to A Father's Memoirs of His Child, by Benjamin Heath Malkin, 1806

Only the surround to the child's head was designed by Blake.

Technique/s

engraving

Material/s

black carbon ink (medium)
paper (support)

Dimensions

plate height: 218 mm
plate width: 150 mm
sheet height: 246 mm
sheet width: 153 mm

Date

1806

Provenance

bought: Tregaskis 1909 (Prints bought by Tregaskis)
G. Trower; given by G. Trower to J. Gilpin in 1807; Mrs Gilpin; given by Mrs Gilpin to Miss Oliver

Inscriptions/Marks

1. Position: plate lower left
   Type: signature
   Method: printed
   Content: Wm. Blake invt.
   
2. Position: plate lower right
   Type: signature
   Method: printed
   Content: R.H. Cromek sc
   
3. Position: plate lower centre
   Type: address
   Method: printed
   Content: London Published by Longman Co. February 1st. 1806
   
4. Position: lower centre
   Method: graphite
   Content: Given Feb. 7 1827
   

Standard print ref/s

Bindman 410
Bindman, David
Toomey, Deirdre
(1978) The complete graphic works of William Blake , London? : Thames & Hudson

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 63]

Accession Number

P.792-R (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 680; Input Date: 1999-12-17 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)