Illustrations for Robert N. Essick, “Blake in the Marketplace, 2008,” Blake 42.4 (spring 2009): 116-46.

Cover: Postcard photograph (from the 1930s?), 8.8 x 13.7 cm., showing the south aspect of Blake’s cottage in Felpham. Essick collection.

Illus. 1: The Death of the Good Old Man. Pen and ink and watercolor over traces of pencil, 20.1 x 25.8 cm. Datable to 1805. Essick collection.

Illus. 2: The Death of the Good Old Man (manipulated in Photoshop to erase accidental blemishes).

Illus. 3: “The Death of the Good Old Man.” Etching/engraving by Louis Schiavonetti after Blake. Second published state as printed for the 1808 quarto issue of Robert Blair, The Grave. Image 20.3 x 26.0 cm., platemark 23.9 x 27.6 cm. Essick collection.

Illus. 4: The Flight into Egypt. Tempera on canvas, 27.2 x 38.3 cm., inscribed “inv / WB 179[9?]” lower right. Essick collection.

Illus. 5: St. Augustine Converting King Ethelbert of Kent. Watercolor, 13.3 x 18.4 cm., datable to c. 1779. Photo courtesy of David Tunick.

Illus. 6: Front cover of Richard Garnett, William Blake Painter and Poet (London: Seeley and Co., 1895). Full cover 27.3 x 18.0 cm., gilt-stamped lettering and design 15.3 x 10.0 cm. Essick collection.

Illus. 7: John Linnell (or Samuel Palmer?). An Extensive Landscape, Possibly the Weald of Kent. Pen and ink and watercolor over pencil, 27.0 x 37.0 cm., datable to c. 1813-16. Photo courtesy of Bonhams.