Item #100895 An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England. Prince Hoare, separate plate.

An Inquiry into the Requisite Cultivation and Present State of the Arts of Design in England.

1806. London: Richard Phillips, 1806.

Single sheet, 123 x 189mm, plate mark 114 x 172mm, a little soiled.

§ Frontispiece titled “The Graphic Muse.” “Sketched from the picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds on the ceiling of the Library of the Royal Academy” and engraved by Blake. This the only example of the frontispiece available as a separate plate that I have seen. Bentley 474. Essick, William Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations, XLVIII. Item #100895

Price: $875.00

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