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WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)

Lot 149
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1513564
Lot 149 | WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
My Pretty ROSE TREE, AH! SUN-FLOWER, THE LILLY, from: Songs of Experience
relief etching
the design printed in colours, the text printed in ochre, finished by hand with watercolour
circa 1793
on wove paper, without watermark
from the exceptionally rare First Issue, circa 1794, Copy G,
Plate 43
printed by William Blake, hand coloured by William or Catherine Blake
with wide margins
Plate 108 x 69 mm.
Sheet 182 x 107 mm.




Provenance

With Quaritch, London, 1859-60 (bound, forty plates); and 1877 (rebound, fifteen plates); subsequently disbound and dispersed loose.
Possibly Julian Marshall (1836-1933), London; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1904, lot 36 (eight plates) (£13; to Quaritch, London).
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), London, Cookham Dean and Pangbourne.
W. G. O. Thomas; Sotheby's, London, 28 July 1947, lot 117 (with Plate 42, The Tyger) (£75; `...from the collection of Kenneth Grahame').
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. 265 (another impression illustrated).
M. Phillips, William Blake, The Creation of the Songs, From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, London, 2000, p. 170 (this 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. 35.5.
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