Abstract
The name Robert Hartley Cromek has been attracting invidious adjectives for a century and a half from a growing range of enthusiastic detractors. At first the complaints were quiet and personal. In 1808 the son of Blake's friend George Cumberland, who lived with the Cromeks, protested that "it is very unpleasant at Mrs Cromek's" because of their "selfish dispositions, trite Yorkshire." Sir Walter Scott discovered that in 1809 Cromek had stolen his prized Ben Jonson letter. Thomas Stothard was never paid in full for his painting of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims which Cromek had commissioned, and Allan Cunningham received no credit for the ancient ballads he wrote for Cromek.
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