TULK (Charles Augustus, 1786-1849), patron to William Blake and John Flaxman, and founder member

TULK (Charles Augustus, 1786-1849), patron to William Blake and John Flaxman, and founder member of the Swedenborg Society, a small archive collection including family albums and published illustrated works by Flaxman. Included is Caroline Tulk's album of drawings and watercolours with a pencil sketch of Charles Tulk attributed to Giuseppi Caputi, and another bust length sketch thought to be of Flaxman.Serena viewing herself in the Glass by Maria Flaxman, for Hayley's The Triumphs of Temper. 9 x 12cm; also a Flaxman Gallery Subscription List, 1848, inscribed in ink ‘To my dear friend – La Comtesse Cottrell, from M. Denman’. It contains handwritten corrections by Maria Denman, in ink, to the printed subscriber’s list.Five 1st edition volumes of Flaxman's drawings, published 1805-35, including: The Illiad of Homer, The Odysey, Compositions from the Works, Days and Theogony of Hesiod, Compositions from the Works, Days and Theogony of Hesiod, The Lord's Prayer. Also two French editions. Three works by or about Tulk. A manuscript letter dated November 4th 1847, from Charles Augustus Tulk to the wife of James J. Garth Wilkinson, social reformer, editor and translator of Swedenborg’s scientific and philosophical writings.An annotated proof copy of pages 131-142, in biographical notes 230 to 234 of Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg, Collected, Translated, and Annotated Testimony of Contemporaries, p556, [1875?] referring to J.J. Garth Wilkinson, Swedenborg’s Portraits, John Flaxman, Charles A. Tulk & Swedenborg’s Skull.