ID 1422609
Lot 23 | WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
'With Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow'
pencil, pen and black ink and grey wash on paper
1 ½ x 3 3/8 in. (3.9 x 8.6 cm.)
Provenance
The artist, from whom acquired by
John Linnell (1792-1882) (†); Christie’s, London, 15 March 1918, lot 205 (part) (108 gns to Parsons).
Anonymous sale; American Art Association, 22 April 1924, lot 69 (part) ($1,625 to the Brick Row Bookshop, New York).
Russell G. Pruden by 1927, New Haven, by whom given to his brother-in-law
Edmund Astley Prentis, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 June 1992, lot 133.
with Justin Schiller, New York.
Literature
A. Keynes, Pencil Drawings of William Blake, London, 1927, no. 54 xix, illustrated.
M. Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, New Haven and London, 1981, p. 535, no. 769, 19, pl. 1013.
R. N. Essick, Blake in the Marketplace, 1992, in Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, 1993, pp. 142-3, fig. 5, illustrated.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, ‘Works of William Blake selected from Collections in the United States’, 1939, no. 137, reproduced, lent by Russell G. Pruden.
| Artist: | William Blake (1757 - 1827) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | 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: | 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 |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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