WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
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ID 1422591
Lot 28 | WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
Valeur estimée
$ 400 000 – 600 000
Oberon and Titania on a Lily
signed with initials 'W [? trimmed]' (lower right)
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolor with scratching out on paper
8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.8 x 15.5 cm.)
Provenance
William Russell, by 1857; Christie's, London, 10 December 1884, lot 111 (1 ¾ gns to Benson).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London 27 April 1927, lot 174 (£155 to Bennett).
with Colnaghi's, London, from whom purchased in 1929 by
Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and by descent until
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 25 January 2006, lot 130.
with John Windle, San Francisco, from whom purchased for the present collection.
Literature
W. M. Rossetti, 'Annotated Catalogue of Blake's Pictures and Drawings,' in A. Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, London 1863, II, p. 237, no. 213; also enlarged edition, London, 1880, vol. II, p. 251, no. 241 [reproduced as front cover of the 1880 edition].
E. Mills, The Life and Letters of Frederic Shields, 1912, p. 255.
W. Moelwyn Merchant, 'Blake's Shakespeare’, Apollo, vol. LXXIX, 1964, p. 320, pl. 7 (reprinted in R. N. Essick, (ed.) The Visionary Hand, Essays for the Study of William Blake's Art and Aesthetics, Los Angeles, 1973, pp. 241-42, pl. 67).
J. E. Grant, 'Two Flowers in the Garden of Experience’, in A. H. Rosenfeld, ed. William Blake: Essays for S. Foster Damon, 1969, pp. 358, 487-88, no. 33.
S. R. Hoover, ‘Pictures at the Exhibitions’, Blake Newsletter, vol. VI, 1972-73, pp. 6-8, pl. 1.
D. Bindman, Blake as an Artist, London, 1977, pp. 39-40, 84.
M. D. Paley, William Blake, Oxford, 1978, p. 34, pl. 21.
M. Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 125-6, no. 245, pl. 294.
E.W. Dörrbecker, (ed.) ‘The Continental Prophecies: William Blake’, in D. Bindman (ed.), The Illuminated Books of William Blake, IV, London, 1995, pp. 311-14.
R. Hamlyn and M. Phillips, William Blake, exhib. cat., London, Tate Gallery, and New York, Metropolitan Museum, 2000-1, pp. 278, 311-12.
R.N. Essick, ‘Blake in the Marketplace, 2006’, in Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly, XL, no. 4, Spring 2007, pp. 127-9, fig. 9.
Exhibited
Manchester, Art Treasures, 1857, no. 130, lent by William Russell.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Works of William Blake, 1930, number untraced.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, William Blake, 1757-1827, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of William Blake Selected from Collections in the United States, 1939, no. 183.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, William Blake: Painter and Poet, 1957, catalogue number untraced.
London, Arts Council, Shakespeare in Art, 1964, no. 34.
Hartford, Wadsworth Athenaeum; Hanover, N.H., Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College; and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, 1973-74, no. 45, illustrated.
| Artiste: | William Blake (1757 - 1827) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Stylo à bille, Aquarelle sur papier |
| Matériel: | Plastique |
| Style artistique: | Romantisme |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Aquarelles et dessins |
| Artiste: | William Blake (1757 - 1827) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Stylo à bille, Aquarelle sur papier |
| Matériel: | Plastique |
| Style artistique: | Romantisme |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Aquarelles et dessins |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
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