English: Croped section from a plate in Blake's "Milton:A Poem" Copy C currently held at the New York Public Library. Image is Object 34 in the copy, hand-coloured after printing. This version depicts the relationship of the Four Zoas.
Acquired by William Beckford; sold from Beckford's collection, Sotheby's, 4 July 1882, lot 952 (£230 to the dealer Bernard Quaritch); offered by Quaritch, apparently in a catalogue, 30 July 1882, lot 203 (£270); acquired by Robert Lenox Kennedy; sold after his death in 1887 to the New York Public Library.
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An illustration of the relationship of the four Zoas (Urthona, Urizen, Luvah and Tharmas), from William Blake's "Milton a Poem"
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Object ID: PUBLIC"-//University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill::Carolina Digital Library and Archives::The William Blake Archive//NONSGML(US::NYPL::*KF:: Milton a Poem, copy C::Object 34)//EN"
Title: Milton a Poem, copy C
Object 34
Bentley 32
Erdman 36
Keynes 33
Origination: William Blake: author, inventor, delineator, etcher, printer, colorist
Origination: Catherine Blake: printer
Publisher: William Blake
Place of Publication: London
Note: The place of publication is not given in the imprint, but Blake lived in London during the etching and printing of Milton. Some of the poem might have been written before Blake left Felpham in the fall of 1803.
Publication Date: 1804
Date of Composition: c. 1804-1811
Print Date: c. 1811
Note: Objects 3, 4, and 19 (numbered by Blake 2, 3, and 17) were printed at a later date. Objects 10 and 35 (numbered by Blake 8* and 32*) were not printed, and the the collating and numbering of all the Objects was probably not completed, until c. 1820. Some of the coloring may have been added as late as c. 1820.
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Email: [email protected]
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Department: Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection: Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Call number: *KF
Sponsored by: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Library of Congress
Funded by: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 1995-2007
Funded by: The National Endowment for the Humanities, 2000-02
Funded by: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 1997-98
Funded by: The Getty Grant Program, 1995-98
Funded by: Sun Microsystems, hardware and software grants
Funded by: Inso Corporation, software grant
Copyright (c) 1998 by Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, all rights reserved. Items in the Archive may be shared in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Redistribution or republication on other terms, in any medium, requires express written consent from the editors and advance notification of the publisher, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Permission to reproduce the graphic images in this archive has been granted by the owners of the originals for this publication only. This image copyright (c) 1998 The New York Public Library.
Editors: Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, Joseph Viscomi
Note: Information below pertains to the source file for the in-line 100 dpi and the enlarged 300 dpi JPEG (ISO/IEC 10918) images that are displayed in the Archive after having been individually color-corrected in Adobe Photoshop by the editors. The source files themselves are in TIFF format, and retained by the Archive's editors.
Image Production Information
Film Stock: Kodak Ektachrome 100 EPP
Generation: first
Institution: New York Public Library
Shoot Date: April 1992
Film Type: color positive
Source Dimensions
Width: 11.4 cm
Height: 16.9 cm
Date Scanned: 8-13-96
Scanning Technician: Gena McKinley
Scanned from: 8x10 transparency
Hardware: Microtek Scanmaker 3
Software: Scan Wizard 3.0.2a PPC
File Information
File Name: milton.C.P34-32.300.tif
File Size: 13.9 megabytes
File Format: TIFF
Color Setting: 24-bit color
Orientation: portrait
Color Correction Turned On: yes
Scanner Setting: manual
Image Scaling Information
Input Dimensions
Width: 11.33 cm
Height: 16.98 cm
Scaling: 100
Output Dimensions
Width: 11.33 cm
Height: 16.98 cm
Scanner Resolution: 300 dpi
Final Resolution: 300 dpi
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