Condition: UsedUsed Ended: Mar 09, 2023 06:30:00 PST Winning bid: EUR 17.00 "Love" kolorierter, in der Platte datierter Kupferstich mir Radierung bei Orme, London 1810 BlattgrцЯe: ca. 20 x 26,5 cm Ansicht: ca. 13,5 x 21 cm Papier mit Wasserzeichen "...Turkey Mill 1825" Dieses Blatt stammt aus einem Buch. llustrations of the Book of Job invented & engraved by William Blake [12 of 22 engravings] COLLECTIONSWilliam Blake Collection CLASSIFICATIONSPRINTS DATE1825 MEDIUMengravings on laid India paper DIMENSIONSsheet: 17 x 13 3/16 in. (43.2 x 33.5 cm.) DESCRIPTIONTwenty-two plates designed and engraved by Blake, loose in portfolio. First (published "Proof") issue on laid India paper. INSCRIBEDSix plates watermarked: J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1825 MARKINGSSix plates watermarked: J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1825 London, printed for Edward Orme, 1810 Current price£1,950.00 An exceedingly scarce volume with contemporary hand-colouring. Bobbin, whose real name was John Collier (1708-1786), fashioned himself as the Lancashire Hogarth, and was both celebrated in his day for his illustrations and his writings. This particular work has a broadness of theme which allows Collier to depict in his caricatures the panoply of everyday English society, exploring numerous topics such as love, anger, avarice, and penitence. Dentistry, or the torture of tooth pulling, is the subject of a number of the plates, as is intemperate drinking. 4to; engraved portrait frontispiece, hand-coloured dedication, 25 hand-coloured plates, faint soiling to leaves; contemporary green russia gilt, gilt lettering to spine, spine slightly split, corners a little rubbed, all edges gilt, brown endpapers; overall a good copy of a scarce work. Collier