- Title:
- A Standard Bearer Fainting in the Routed Battle (Design 87)
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: A Festal Board (Design 88)
The Triumphs of Owen- Part Of:
- Date:
- between 1797 and 1798
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink upper right: "1"; on verso in black ink upper left: "2"
Lettered on inlaid page: "THE | TRIUMPHS OF OWEN. | A FRAGMENT. | FROM | Mr. EVANS'S Specimen of Welsh Poetry; | LONDON, 1764, Quarto. | I3"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "ADVERTISEMENT. | OWEN succeeded his father GRIFFIN in the | principality of NORTH WALES, A. D. | 1120. This battle was fought near forty | years afterwards."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.11(44)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- armor | banner | battle | bodies | bowl (vessel) | cup | dead | dinner | drinking glass | flag | goblet | historical subject | knight (landholder) | literary theme | meal | men | pitcher | soldier | standard | table | text
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3680
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Colin Cross, Blake revealed, William Blake : Discovery of a Masterwork , Observer, vol. 12, November 21, 1971, pp. 19-23, V 1245 Detached from Observer colour magazine [ORBIS]
Arnold Fawcus, Unknown Watercolours by William Blake, Illustrated London News, vol. 259, No. 6881, December 25, 1971, pp. 45-46, 49-51, Illustrated London News Historical Archive [ORBIS]