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Nicholas Blakey
Nationality: 
irish
Gender: 
Male
Birth Date: 
1713
Birth Place: 
London
Death Date: 
1758
Death Place: 
Paris
Draftsman, engraver, illustrator
"What brought Sr. Visto's ill-got Wealth to waste? Some dæmon whisper'd, Visto! have a Taste," illustration to Epistle IV of Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man in The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 15
"What brought Sr. Visto's ill-got Wealth to waste? Some dæmon whisper'd, Visto! have a Taste," illustration to Epistle IV of Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man in The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 15
Boastfull and rough your first Son is a Squire, The next a Tradesman, meek and much a Liar,....etc., from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 12
Boastfull and rough your first Son is a Squire, The next a Tradesman, meek and much a Liar,....etc., from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 12
Creation of Adam
Creation of Adam
Creation of Eve
Creation of Eve
Hope humbly then; with trembling Pinions soar, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 8
Hope humbly then; with trembling Pinions soar, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 8
In Men we various ruling Passions find, In Women, two almost divide the Kind,....etc., from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 13
In Men we various ruling Passions find, In Women, two almost divide the Kind,....etc., from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 13
Know then this Truth (enough for Man to Know); Virtue alone is Happyness below, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 11
Know then this Truth (enough for Man to Know); Virtue alone is Happyness below, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 11
See some fit Passion every Age Supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 10
See some fit Passion every Age Supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 10
Self Love still stronger, as it's Objects nigh, Reason's at distance, and in Prospect lie, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 9
Self Love still stronger, as it's Objects nigh, Reason's at distance, and in Prospect lie, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 9
Title page illustration from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 1, plate 1
Title page illustration from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 1, plate 1
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his Store. Sees but a backward Steward for the Poor, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 14
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his Store. Sees but a backward Steward for the Poor, from The Works of Alexander Pope (London, 1751), vol. 3, plate 14