William Blake's drawings to Milton's Comus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Contributor:

Griggs, William, 1832-1911.

Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899.

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Comus--Illustrations.

Milton, John.

Genre:

Pictures.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (inscription, 1970)

Physical Description:

8 leaves : color facsimiles ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1890?]

Contents:

1. Comus and his revel rout surprise the Lady

2. Comus disguised as a rustic addressed the Lady in the wood

3. The Brothers garing grapes, Comus looking on

4. The two Brothers passing the night in the wood; the Guardian Spirit as a shepherd

5. Comus with the Lady spell-bound in the chair

6. The Brothers rush in to save their sister; Comus flies

7. Sabrina disenchanting the Lady

8. The Lady restored to her parents.

Notes:

Title from cover.

Eight drawings by William Blake for John Milton's Comus, reproduced by William Griggs in 1890.

Each reproduction captioned: Quaritch's Illustrations, No. [112-119]. Griggs fecit 1890. Book-illumination: facsimiles from mss. William Blake's Drawings to illustrate Milton's Comus (in the possession of Bernard Quaritch).

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Penn Libraries copy bound in decorated paper boards with olive-green leather label ruled and lettered in gold on upper board; ms. title on spine.

Penn Libraries copy has autograph of Cornelius Vette(?) on front free endpaper; ms. description of item in pencil on front free endpaper; small card (4.5 x 10 cm) printed with illustration in brown ink ("W. Blake inv & sc. ... 1827") with ms. inscription "Happy Birthday to Joe 1970 from Joe + Vince" laid in.

OCLC:

468121855