Thoughts on outline, sculpture, and the system that guided the ancient artists in composing their figures and groupes
accompanied with free remarks on the practice of the moderns, and liberal hints cordially intended for their advantage ; to which are annexed twenty-four designs of classical subjects invented on the principles recommended in the essay
by George Cumberland
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Of the 24 plates, 15 were engraved by Cumberland, 8 by William Blake, and one (the frontispiece) is unsigned.
William Blake was probably the writing-engraver for all the plates, for they all exhibit the backward-serif 'g' peculiar to Blake. Cf. Bentley
Plate 1 is the frontispiece.
Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 447
Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., pp. 205-206.
Gift to Victoria University Library (Pratt Rare copy). Frye, Elizabeth and Jane Widdicombe.
Gift to Victoria University Library (Blake no. 706). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.
Victoria University Library copy 1 pages are untrimmed; copy 2 pages are trimmed (28 cm.).
Victoria University Library copy 1 has plate 8 bound in front, after 1st fly-leaf.
Victoria University Library copy 2 has p. 1-4 bound in front of p. i-iii (1st group); and has blank leaf bound in after p. [54].
Victoria University Library copy 2 is inscribed by Cumberland on the first fly-leaf; it has underlining and some notations in ms. throughout; and has armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.
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