WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)

Lot 152
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ID 1513581
Lot 152 | WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
Valeur estimée
£ 50 000 – 70 000
WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
NURSES Song, from: Songs of Experience
relief etching
the design printed in colours, the text printed in pale green, finished by hand with watercolour
circa 1793
on wove paper, without watermark
from the exceptionally rare First Issue, circa 1794, Copy G, Plate 38
printed by William Blake, hand coloured by William or Catherine Blake
with wide margins, with five stab holes at the left edge
Plate 107 x 67 mm.
Sheet 180 x 118 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).
Adeline M. Butterworth, Liverpool; Sotheby's, London, 6 May 1936, lot 719.
Sotheby's, London, 21 December 1937, lot 333 (£12.12s; to Armstrong) (inscribed by Keynes in pencil verso).
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. 263 (another impression illustrated).
M. Phillips, William Blake, The Creation of the Songs, From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing, London, 2000, p. 164 (this impression illustrated).
R. Essick, and J. Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. www.williamblakearchive.org. Accessed October 2025.



Exhibited

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Works by William Blake, February-March 1914, no. 83.
The British Museum, London, William Blake and his Circle, Bicentenary Exhibition, 1957, no. 34.4.
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