WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
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ID 1513651
Los 150 | WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
Schätzwert
30000GBP £ 30 000 – 50 000
The CLOD & the PEBBLE, 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 32
printed by William Blake, hand coloured by William or Catherine Blake
with wide margins, with three stab holes at the left edge
Plate 111 x 72 mm.
Sheet 182 x 118 mm.
Provenance
With Quaritch, London, 1859-60 (bound, forty plates); and 1877 (rebound, fifteen plates); subsequently disbound and dispersed loose.
Possibly J. W. Ford; Sotheby's, London, 12 May 1902, lot 75 (with Plate 49, A Poison Tree) (£5. 17s. 6d.; to Tregaskis, London).
Possibly Julian Marshall (1836-1933), London; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1904, lot 36 (eight plates) (£13; to Quaritch, London).
Greville Macdonald (1856-1944), Haslemere.
With Francis Edwards, London; probably acquired from the above.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), Cambridge; 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. 266 (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. 34.6.
Tate Gallery, London, William Blake, March-May 1978, no. 54 (this impression illustrated).
| Künstler: | William Blake (1757 - 1827) |
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| Angewandte Technik: | Handkoloriert, Radierung |
| Material: | Acrylglas, Kunststoff |
| Kunst Stil: | Alte Meister |
| Herkunftsort: | Nordeuropa, Europa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik & Multiples |
| Künstler: | William Blake (1757 - 1827) |
|---|---|
| Angewandte Technik: | Handkoloriert, Radierung |
| Material: | Acrylglas, Kunststoff |
| Kunst Stil: | Alte Meister |
| Herkunftsort: | Nordeuropa, Europa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik & Multiples |
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