Fragment of cancelled plate for "A Prophecy" [recto]

1793

William Blake

Artist, British, 1757 - 1827

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    relief etched copper plate

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.1 × 5.87 cm (3 3/16 × 2 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.1848.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bindman 1978, no. 164, State a(i)

Associated Artworks

Head of Saint John the Baptist [verso]

Thomas Butts, Jr.

1728

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1957

  • he Art of William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1957, no. 95.

2000

  • William Blake, Tate Britain, 2000-2001, cat. no. 112.

2001

  • William Blake, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001, cat. no. 112.

Bibliography

1907

  • Briggs, Ada E., The Connoisseur, 19 (1907): 9b? (reproduced as by Blake).

1978

  • Bindman, David. The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Wikidata ID

Q63570786

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