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Inscription

upper right in ink: 9; bottom center in ink: "a Flaming Sword" / "Revolving every way"

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d)

Provenance

John Varley [1778-1842], London. Sydney Morse [1854-1929], London; (his sale, Christie's, London, 26 July 1929, lot 19). (Charles Sessler [1854-1935], Philadelphia); purchased 10 March 1930 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Exhibition History

1948
Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, 1948.
1961
Blake, New Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1961, no cat.

Bibliography

1953
Kenyes, Geoffrey and Edwin Wolf. William Blake's Illuminated Books: A Census. New York: The Grolier Club of New York, 1953, no. 5, 86.
1978
Bindman, David. The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

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