Samuel Collings

May Day in London, engraving by William Blake based on art by Samuel Collings, The Wits Magazine Vol I May 1784

Samuel Collings (fl. 1780–1790?), British painter and caricaturist of 18th century.

Collings exhibited "The Children in the Wood, a Sketch" at the Royal Academy in 1784, and then 85 he exhibited "The Chamber of Genius" which was engraved. He worked for Thomas Rowlandson, producing illustrations for his satirical publications including the satires on Johnson and Boswell's tour to the Hebrides, and on Goethe's 'Sorrows of Werter.'

His name is mostly associated with William Blake who produced in 1784 four engravings after his drawings for The Wit's Magazine.

Links

• British Museum
• Fitzwilliam Museum
• National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
• Morgan Library and Museum

Gallery

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  May-Day in London
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  The Discomfited Duellists
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  Tythe in Kind or The Sow's (The Wit's Magazine Vol I Feb 1784)
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  The Blind Beggars Hats