The Counseller, King, Warrior, Mother and Child in the Tomb (Plate VIII). Bodies of a bearded sage, king with crown and sceptre, knight in armour with sword, mother in shroud embracing a baby. Arranged like effigies in a vault with oil lamp. Copperplate engraving by Louis Schiavonetti after an original drawing by William Blake from Robert Blair’s The Grave, T. Bensley for Rudolph Ackermann, 1813.

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