The Grave, A Poem
Medium
Illustrations: etchings
Dimensions
17 5/8 × 13 3/8 × 7/8 in. (44.8 × 34 × 2.2 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Estate of Maurice Everett Hall Jr., also known as Michael Hall, 2021
Accession Number
2021.164.3
About this artwork
This 1813 edition of Robert Blair's poem "The Grave" features twelve etchings executed by Luigi Schiavonetti from William Blake's original designs. Published in London by Rudolph Ackermann, this edition represents the second printing of what became Blake's most commercially successful work during his lifetime. The volume includes a frontispiece portrait of Blake by Thomas Phillips. Blake created the original watercolor designs expecting to engrave them himself, but publisher Robert Hartley Crom...
About the Artist
Robert Blair|Rudolph Ackermann, London|William Blake|Henry Fuseli|Thomas Bensley|William Blake|Robert Hartley Cromek|Thomas Phillips|William Blake|Luigi Schiavonetti (British|British) · 1757 |1699 –1827 |1746
British, London 1757–1827 London|British, 1699–1746