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William Blake

The Ghost of Samuel Appearing to Saul, c. 1800

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series Title

Bible for Thomas Butts

Medium

pen and ink with watercolor over graphite

Dimensions

Overall: 32 x 34.4 cm (12 5/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
support: 55.6 x 44.4 cm (21 7/8 x 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Butlin 1981, no. 458

Accession Number

1943.3.8996

Artists / Makers

William Blake (artist) British, 1757 - 1827

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: WB inv; lower right on mount: 1st.Samuel 28th.ch:12th to 21; lower right on mount: (title and text in copperplate hand)

Provenance

LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1957: The Art of William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1957, no. 12.

1965: William Blake, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1965, no. 23.

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 90-91.

1996: William Blake, Fundación "la Caixa," Madrid; Fundació "la Caixa," Barcelona, 1996

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2002: La peinture comme crime, Museé du Louvre, Paris, 2001-2002, 130-133, 345 n. 81, 359, no.84.

Bibliography

1975: Fine 1975 IV.A.10.

1978: Butlin, Martin. William Blake. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London, 1978: 169.

1981: Butlin, Martin. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

1982: Bindman, David. William Blake: His Art and Times. Exh. cat. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. London, 1982: 77.

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