Second plate “Death of Demosthenes” in: An Essay on Sculpture: In a Series of Epistles to John Flaxman.
1800. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1800.
Plate facing p. 126, 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. Bentley, Blake Books, 467. Essick, Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, XXXIX. Item #100891
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