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lower right: WB inv; lower right on mount in copperplate hand: Revens: Ch:13th: v. I: & 2:; across top: (title); across bottom: And ... authority

Provenance

Marsden J. Perry (Lugt 1880), LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)

Exhibition History

1953
Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 93.
1965
William Blake, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1965, no. 30.
1973
The Apocalypse, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 1973, no. 33, repro.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
1999
The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, British Museum, London, 1999, p. 256 (no. 30).
2002
La peinture comme crime, Museé du Louvre, Paris, 2001-2002, 112-114,344 n. 2, 358, no. 70.
2006
The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007
2019
William Blake, Tate Britain, London, 2019-2020, no. 75, repro.

Bibliography

1975
Fine 1975, IV.A.11.
1978
Butlin, Martin. William Blake. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London, 1978: 188.
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: 82.
1993
Thompson, E.P. Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law. Cambridge, Eng., 1993: fig. 20.
1998
Denny, Don. "Apocalypse." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 1:43.

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