The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His CircleA Romantic Circles Electronic EditionRobert Bloomfield (1766–1823)Tim FulfordRomantic CirclesGeneral Editor, Neil FraistatGeneral Editor, Steven E. JonesGeneral Editor, Carl StahmerTechnical EditorLaura MandellfigureslistRomantic Circles, http://www.rc.umd.edu, University of MarylandCollege Park, MDJuly 9, 2009

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List of Figures[1]John Anderson, titlepage vignette for The Farmer's Boy, 1st edn (London: Vernor and Hood, 1800). 2160px x 1440px[2]John Anderson, headpiece to The Farmer's Boy, 1st edn (London: Vernor and Hood, 1800), Spring. 1930px x 1393px[3]Portrait engraving by William Ridley after a design by Samuel Drummond, published in the Monthly Mirror (1800). 527px x 760px[4]Frontispiece to 2nd and subsequent editions of The Farmer's Boy (London: Vernor and Hood, 1800). Woodcut by Charlton Nesbit from a design by John Thurston. 870px x 1080px[5]Portrait engraving by William Ridley after a design by Samuel Drummond, published in the European Magazine (1801). 518px x 760px[6]Copperplate engraving by R. Rhodes, after a drawing by Thomson. Illustration to The Farmer's Boy (separately issued: London: Vernor and Hood, 1802), Spring. 368px x 565px[7]Copperplate engraving to The Farmer's Boy (separately issued: London: Vernor and Hood, 1802), Summer. 805px x 1435px[8]Copperplate engraving to The Farmer's Boy (separately issued: London: Vernor and Hood, 1802), Autumn. 600px x 789px[9]Portrait engraving by William Ridley after a painting by Henry Edridge, from Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs (London: Vernor and Hood, 1802). 379px x 459px[10]Engraving used to accompany the poem Rosy Hannah in Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs (London: Vernor and Hood, 1802). 415px x 338px[11]Frontispiece to Nathaniel Bloomfield's Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad … and Other Poems (London: Hurst, Vernor and Hood, 1803), engraved by Cook after a sketch by E. V. Blomfield. 755px x 522px[12]Frontispiece to 8th edn of The Farmer's Boy (London: Vernor and Hood, 1805), engraved by Robert Branston after a design by William Marshall Craig. 1014px x 1500px[13]Woodcut illustration to the 8th edn of The Farmer's Boy (London: Vernor and Hood, 1805), headpiece. 750px x 488px[14]Woodcut illustration to the 8th edn of The Farmer's Boy (London: Vernor and Hood, 1805), headpiece to Spring, after a design by William Marshall Craig. 750px x 552px[15]Woodcut illustration to the 8th edn of The Farmer's Boy (London: Vernor and Hood, 1805), Autumn, the distracted woman. 1150px x 781px[16]J. Storer and J. Grieg, medallion portrait of Robert Bloomfield, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 1211px[17]J. Grieg, after a portrait by Pierre Violet, The Mother of Robert Bloomfield, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 621px x 760px[18]J. Grieg, Sapiston Church from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 533px[19]J. Storer, The Farm House at Sapiston, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 1000px x 720px[20]Marble Bust, engraved by B. Holl (S. Robinson, 1808). 510px x 760px[21]New Wear on the Wye, from The Banks of Wye; a Poem in Four Books, 2nd edn. (London: printed for B. and R. Crosby & Co., 1813). Engraved by Hayes after a design by Robert Bransby Cooper. 638px x 461px[22]Martin's Tower, Chepstow Castle, from The Banks of Wye; a Poem in Four Books, 2nd edn. (London: printed for B. and R. Crosby & Co., 1813). Engraved by Hayes after a design by Robert Bransby Cooper. 514px x 367px[23]Van Mountain, near Brecknock, from the Priory Woods, from The Banks of Wye; a Poem in Four Books, 2nd edn. (London: printed for B. and R. Crosby & Co., 1813). Engraved by Hayes after a design by Robert Bransby Cooper. 620px x 433px[24]View of the Usk through a Gateway at Crickhowel from The Banks of Wye; a Poem in Four Books, 2nd edn. (London: printed for B. and R. Crosby & Co., 1813). Engraved by Hayes after a design by Robert Bransby Cooper. 501px x 693px[25]Robert Bloomfield, bookplate (London: printed for Robert Bloomfield by W. Jackson, printer, 1813). 1000px x 14850px[26]The Maen y Morwynion or Maiden Stone from The Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet; Containing a Series of Elegant Views of the Most Interesting Objects of Curiosity in Great Britain, vol. 4 (London: published for the Proprietor, by J. Murray, Nornaville and Fell, C. Chapple, Taylor and Hessey, J. M. Richardson, and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1818). Engraved after a sketch by Robert Bloomfield. 193px x 280px[27]Portrait engraved by T. Woolnoth after a design by T. C. Wageman, from the Ladies' Monthly Museum (1823). 445px x 760px[28]House in Pitcher's Court, Bell Alley, once the Residence of Robert Bloomfield from The Gentleman's Magazine (December 1823), 496. 500px x 716px[29]The Cottage wherein Bloomfield was Born, at Honington, in Suffolk, from The Table Book, of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry-Makings, Antiquities and Novelties, Forming a Complete History of the Year (London: William Tegg, 1827-28), p. 831. 1284px x 905px[30]Portrait engraving after a design by Solomon Polack, published by Vernor and Hood, 1800. 504px x 760px[31]J. Grieg, Euston Hall, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 1098px[32]J. Grieg, Fakenham from Euston Park, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 1101px[33]J. Grieg, The Temple in Euston Park, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 559px[34]J. Grieg, The Danish Mounds, Thetford, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 1000px x 716px[35]J. Grieg, Honington Church, and the Cottage in which Rob<hi rend="sup">t</hi>. Bloomfield was born, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 545px[36]J. Grieg, Fakenham from the Meadows, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 1040px[37]J. Grieg, Troston Hall, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 1131px[38]J. Grieg, Wakefield Lodge, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 1000px x 713px[39]J. Grieg, Wake's Oak, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 1000px x 736px[40]J. Grieg, The Triangular Tower Shooter's Hill, from Views in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Northamptonshire, Illustrative of the Works of Robert Bloomfield; Accompanied with Descriptions: to which is Annexed a Memoir of the Poet's Life by E. W. Brayley (London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1806). 750px x 1025px[41]Richard Westall RS (1765-1836), A Peasant Boy (c. 1794) © Royal Academy of Arts. 462px x 600px[42]Joseph Wright, of Derby (1734-1797), The Dead Soldier (c. 1789) © Holburne Museum of Art, Bath. 740px x 581px[43]James Heath (1779-1834), engraving of Wright's The Dead Soldier (1795; pub. 1797). 740px x 600px