The Ghost of Samuel Appearing to Saul

c. 1800

William Blake

Artist, British, 1757 - 1827

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and ink with watercolor over graphite

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.8996

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Butlin 1981, no. 458

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Associated Names

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

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. 90-91.

1987

  • English Drawings and Watercolors, 1630-1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987-1988, no cat.

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.

Inscriptions

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)

Wikidata ID

Q64636346

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