WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Lot 21
10.06.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1422621
Lot 21 | WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
The Bed of Death (recto); and A subsidiary sketch of a figure in a doorway (verso)
with inscription and number, '91 /The Bed of Death /Wm Blake' (on the reserve)
pencil, pen and grey ink and grey wash, fragmentary watermark, on laid paper
5 ¾ x 5 1/8 in. (14.7 x 13.2 cm.)




Provenance

Probably Mrs Catherine Blake (1762-1831), London, by whom bequeathed to
Frederick Tatham (1805-1878); Sotheby’s, London, 29 April 1862, lot 174 (part), where purchased by
Colonel Gould Weston (1823-1904), and by descent to
Mrs Jane Hunter-Weston (1837-1911), and by descent to
Miss Nora Hunter [The Collection of the late Colonel Gould Weston]; Christie’s, London, 15 July 1957, lot 29 (40 gns to The Andrea Corporation).
The Woodner Collection; Christie’s, London, 9 July 1991, lot 86.
with Salander O’Reilly, New York.



Literature

M. Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, New Haven and London, 1981, p. 52, no. 139, as untraced, circa 1780-5(?).
R. N. Essick, Blake in the Marketplace, 1991, 'Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly', vol. 25, no. 4, 1992, pp. 146-7, illustrated.
R. N. Essick, Blake in the Marketplace, 2012, 'Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly', vol. 46, no. 4, 2013, under no. 5.



Exhibited

New York, 'William Blake, Paintings, Watecolors and Drawings’, essays by Martin Butlin and Robin Hamlyn, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, 1992, no 25.
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