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blake-102	Gourlay, Alexander S.	Dennis M. Read, R. H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur	2022		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	1853	50	43	Going back more than thirty years, Dennis Read has published articles large and small about the activities of Blake’s associate Robert Hartley Cromek (1770–1812); in the most important of these, “The Rival Canterbury Pilgrims of Blake and Cromek: Herculean Figures in the Carpet” (Modern Philology, 1988), he showed that contrary to the account assembled by Gilchrist and echoed by most of Blake’s subsequent biographers, who hold that Cromek stole the idea from Blake, Blake’s Chaucer picture and engraving were conceived and created in response to the painting by Thomas Stothard and the projected engraving after it. This chapter would be stronger if it included a survey and some more examples of Cromek’s chalcographic output so that we could see his strengths and weaknesses, judge the trajectory of his career, or consider other ways that his engraving could shed light on his later projects, and on Blake’s.	cache/blake-102.htm	txt/blake-102.txt