Pestilence, Probably The Great Plague Of London
Represented work of art
Artist
William Blake
((1757–1827))
Material
Dimensions0.14 x 0.185 (5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches)
Inscription
- Indistinctly signed with initials, inscribed on verso: 241/Jan/47 The plague/b. Grahames Sale London 1878
Provenance
- Mrs Blake; Frederick Tatham; Joseph Hogarth, His sale Southgate's, June 1854 (bought Cowieston; ) ' Barron Grahame, his sale, Sotheby's, 15 March 1878, bought Chalmers; Robert Carfrae; Robert Carfae, Jr. ; Donald Davidson; Anonymous sale, So0eby's, July 8, 1982 (102)
Exhibition history
- William Blake and his Early Nineteenth-Century Scottish Follower, David Scott, University of Edinburgh, April-May, 1974; William Blake 1757-1828, Hamburg and Frankfurt, March-July, 1975, (2) (repro); William Blake, tate Gallery, 1978, (21) (repro.)
Publication history
- David Bindman, Blake's 'Gothicism Imagination' and History of England (in Morton D. Paley and Michael Phillips, William Blake: Essays in honour of Sir Geoffrey Keynes)1973, p.46; Martin Butlin, Blake Newsletter VII, 1973-4 pp.5.8, repro. plate l; David Bindman, Blake as an Artist, 1977, pp.32, 85; David Bindman, Blake's Theory and Practice of Imitation (in Robert N;. Essick and Donald Pearce, Blake in his Time) 1978, p.92. Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Newhaven and London, 1981, p.70, (184) repro. in colour, plate 187.
Photographic source
Object FormatPhotographic Print
Photograph Source
Sotheby's Auction House
Negative NumberM.57412
Archival context
Object numberPA-F08123-0141
Archival context
- Fonds:Paul Mellon Centre Photographic Archive
- Series:Artists, A–Z
- Folder:PA-F08123
- Item:Pestilence, Probably The Great Plague Of London
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