WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Lot 24
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Lot 24 | WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
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WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
The First Book of Urizen: Plate 3: 'O flames of furious desire'; subsidiary pencil sketch (verso)
colour-printed relief etching and pencil, finished in pen and ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour (recto)
2 3/8 x 3 ¾ in. (6 x 9.5 cm.)




Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 December 1970, lot 14 (£80.12 to C. Fry).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 25 April 1995, lot 52.



Literature

M. Butlin, 'Another Rediscovered Small Color Print by William Blake', Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, XXVII, no. 3, Winter 1993/4, p. 68, recto and verso illus.
W. Stephenson, Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime, 1995, Cranbury, New Jersey, and London, pp. 27-28.
M. Butlin and R. Hamlyn, ‘Tate Britain reveals New Blakes and Thirteen New Lines of Verse’, Blake, An Illustrated Quarterley, XLII, no. 2, Fall 2008, p. 59.
Bindman 188 [CHECK]



Exhibited

Sudbury, Gainsborough's House, A Peculiarly English Art, 20 August- 9 October 1994, no. 1.
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