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Altogether four printings have been done, two while the plates belonged to the Linnell family and two while they belonged to Lessing J. Rosenwald. In a ‘List of John Linnell Senior's Letters and Papers’ (in the Ivimy Collection) Linnell's son John Linnell Jr wrote that, following a few proofs taken by Blake himself, his father had ‘had India proofs taken (all disposed of)’; the accounts and day books of Dickson & Ross show that this was in 1838. 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Of what seem to be Blake's original proofs there is a complete set of one <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"https://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/proof\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Proof'\"><span>proof</span></a> for each <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"https://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Composition'\"><span>composition</span></a> in the British Museum and individual proofs elsewhere. The plates have passed, with the Rosenwald Collection, to the National Gallery of Art, Washington.\n<br/>\n<br/>The subject of each <a class=\"glossarylinktopopup\" data-gtm-destination=\"article-page\" data-gtm-name=\"body_text_link\" href=\"https://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving\" title=\"Glossary definition for 'Engraving'\"><span>engraving</span></a> was identified on a label pasted to the cover of the 1838 issue that reads as follows:\n<br/></p>\n<p>BLAKE'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF DANTE. /<i>Seven Plates, designed and engraved by</i> W. BLAKE, <i>Author of ‘Illustrations of / the Book of Job,’ &c. &c.</i> /Price £2.2s. 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