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That Fuseli gave Blake a free hand when he was working up the sketch is probable, but this notion doesn’t reveal how close they were, how often they met, and indeed how Fuseli treated his engravers (on their relationship, see Todd). The exhibition label, in short, made a bold and unsubstantiated claim. (...) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Todd, Ruthven. “Two Blake Prints and Two Fuseli Drawings.”

See Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, ed. Todd (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. (...) In a typescript catalogue of Blake’s paintings and drawings, Todd also claims that “a copy of this rejected plate” is “in the collection of Mr. (...) For the suggestion that Todd’s statements are based on the entry in the Philadelphia exhibition catalogue, see Crosby and Essick 63 and n30.

Mabel Zahn, Sessler’s employee of many years who oversaw prints and drawings, told me that she had been corresponding with Ruthven Todd about the work, and that Todd had in turn told Butlin about it. (...) Todd’s letter begins with the forceful statement that “I find that Martin Butlin agrees with me that Mrs. (...) Zahn included a photocopy of Todd’s letter with her letter to me of 19 Aug. 1971. 3.