WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)

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Los 155 | WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
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WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
The Human Abstract, from: Songs of Experience
relief etching
the design printed in colours, the text printed in pale green, finished by hand with watercolour
circa 1793
on wove paper, without watermark
from the exceptionally rare First Issue, circa 1794, Copy G, Plate 47
printed by William Blake, hand coloured by William or Catherine Blake
with wide margins, with four stab holes at the left edge
Plate 110 x 65 mm.
Sheet 181 x 119 mm.




Provenance

With Quaritch, London, 1859-60 (bound, forty plates); and 1877 (rebound, fifteen plates); subsequently disbound and dispersed loose.
Possibly Julian Marshall (1836-1933), London; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1904, lot 36 (eight plates) (£13; to Quaritch, London).
Possibly with George D. Smith Book Company Inc.; their liquidation sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 21 May 1928, lot 179A.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), Cambridge; possibly acquired from the above; then by descent.



Literature


SELECTED LITERATURE:
G. Keynes, and E. Wolf 2nd, William Blake’s Illuminated Books, A Census, New York, 1953, p. 58 (this impression cited).
G. Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici: A Catalogue of the Library Formed by Geoffrey Keynes, London, 1964, no. 514 (this impression cited).
G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books, Oxford, 1977, p. 415 (this impression cited).
D. Bindman, The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake, London, 1978, no. 251 (another impression illustrated).
R. Essick, and J. Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. www.williamblakearchive.org. Accessed October 2025.



Exhibited

The British Museum, London, William Blake and his Circle, Bicentenary Exhibition, 1957. no. 35.6.
Tate Gallery, London, William Blake, March-May 1978, no. 56 (this impression illustrated).
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