WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)

Lot 151
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ID 1513668
Lot 151 | WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper, from: Songs of Experience
relief etching
the design printed in colours, the text printed in ochre
circa 1793
on wove paper, without watermark
from the exceptionally rare First Issue, circa 1794, Copy G, Plate 37
printed by William Blake
with wide margins, with three stab holes in the left margin
Plate 110 x 68 mm.
Sheet 192 x 124 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).
With Francis Edwards, London.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), Cambridge; a gift from the above, January 1925 (inscribed by Keynes in pencil verso); 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. 258 (another 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. 34.7.
Tate Gallery, London, William Blake, March-May 1978, no. 55 (this impression illustrated).
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