La muerte del justo / drawn by W. Blake ; engraved by L. Schiavonetti.

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Luigi Schiavonetti
1765-1810
La muerte del justo / drawn by W. Blake ; engraved by L. Schiavonetti.
Londres : Pub por R: Ackerman , 1826
Engraving.
image: 202 x 261 mm; plate mark: 236 x 276 mm; on sheet: 273 x 360 mm
Gift of Mr. Herman Cohen.
1980.79:4
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Londres : Pub. por R: Ackerman ..., 1826
Provenance: 
Herman Cohen, Sandy Hook, Conn.
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Engraving by L. Schiavonetti after Blake from José Joaquín de Mora's Meditaciones Poéticas (Londres : Lo publica R. Ackermann, 1826); the plate originally created to illustrate R.H. Cromek's edition of Robert Blair's "The grave" in 1808, in which it was titled "The Death of The Good Old Man".

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Print shows a bearded man lying on a matress; four mourners kneel praying at his head, three at his feet; in the foreground, a Bible is open at the title-page of the New Testament, held open by his right hand; in the background the man's soul is flying out the window on a cloud, escorted by two winged angels.

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