WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
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ID 1422587
Lot 22 | WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
Estimate value
20000USD $ 20 000 – 30 000
Paolo and Francesca
with inscription 'Paolo & Francesca/ supposed for the Dante/ by Wm Blake/ attested by Fredk. Tatham' (lower right)
pencil, on paper, unidentified watermark and the date ‘1815 [?]’ (last digit obscure)
8 ¼ x 13 ¼ in. (21 x 34.8 cm.)
Provenance
Probably Mrs Catherine Blake (1762-1831), London, by whom bequeathed to
Frederick Tatham (1805-1878), London.
with Quaritch, London, 1882, by whom sold in 1886 to
W. Graham Robertson (1866-1948); Christie’s, London, 22 July 1949, lot 72 (20 gns to Mrs Winterbotham).
Mrs Alastair Winterbotham (d. 2004).
Anonymous sale; Bonham’s, London, 11 March 2008, lot 26, where purchased by
with John Windle & Henry Sotheran, London, June 2008, where purchased for the present collection.
Literature
W. Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, 3rd Edition, New York, 1907, p. 495, no. 10.
G. Keynes (ed.), Pencil Drawings of William Blake, London, 1927, no. 79.
K. Preston, The Blake Collection of W. Graham Robertson, London, 1951 pp. 180, 194, no. 84.
G. Keynes (ed.), Drawings of William Blake, London 1970. no. 86.
M. Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, New Haven and London, 1981, p. 590, no. 816, pl. 1060.
R. N. Essick, ‘Blake in the Marketplace, 2007’, Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, XLI, no. 4, Spring 2008, pp. 147-8, illustrated.
Exhibited
Carfax, W. Graham Robertson, February 1906, no. 62.
London, Henry Sotheran, William Blake: An Exhibition of Prints, Books and Facsimiles, June-September 2008.
Artist: | William Blake (1757 - 1827) |
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Applied technique: | Pencil |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
Art style: | Romanticism |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
Artist: | William Blake (1757 - 1827) |
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Applied technique: | Pencil |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
Art style: | Romanticism |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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