Linnell Engraver (3 results)

New York: D. Appleton & Co., n.d. Folio, 11 x 14 3/4", printed on recto only, decorative initial and tailpiece; slight foxing; good. Together with folio 11 x 14 3/4", engraving 7 x 10", minor foxing to edges: very good. § Single leaf describing John Linnell's painting "The Nest," together with the engraving. Linnell was a great friend of William Blake, and printed his Book of Job.…

Condition: Good. Line engraving on laid paper. 40 x 28 cm (sheet). Very Good, minor soiling and foxing in the margin areas.

8vo. 1½ pp. on bifolium. To the women writers and initiators of "The Bouquet culled from Marylebone Gardens", a monthly miscellany, expressing his wish first to further study this publication before he might grant his support: "Ladies, permit me in answer to your very kind application for my name as one of the supporters of The Bouquet to say that I really esteem it a great honour that you should for a moment think of placing my name in such a position and I shall leave it entirely in your hands to do as you think proper when I have stilled my objections [.]". - Around the year 1850 Linnell purchased a property at Redhill, Surrey, where he lived until his death, devoted to landscape painting, with his leisure dedicated to a study of the Bible in the original languages. He was one of the best friends and kindest patrons of William Blake. - The "Bouquet" was a literary magazine run by aristocratic women based on the far side of Regent's Park. Only subscribers were allowed to contribute, and each had to choose the name of a flower to sign her work: Jean Middlemass was "Mignonette", Lady Hester Browne "Bluebell", and the Knatchbull sisters "Kingcups". The young Christina Rossetti contributed Italian verses under the name of "Calta". - A few small ink smudges and traces of old mounting of the verso.…