Tempera with pen and black ink on a copper engraving plate
Dimensions:
4 3/16 x 2 1/2 inches (10.6 x 6.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Verso: [Engraved with foliage, grass, etc., practice strokes]
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.34
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
romanticism | trees | child | literary theme | fear | woman | horse (animal)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Blake - The Artist (Tate Britain, 2019-09-11 - 2020-02-20)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon - A Cambridge Tribute (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007-06-12 - 2007-09-23)The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 276, no. 73, pl. 73, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Gerald Eades Bentley Jr., Blake records, Oxford University Press, London, 1969, pp. 162-163, no. 1, PR 4146 B45 (YCBA)David Bindman, Blake as an Artist, Phaidon, Oxford, 1977, p. 132, NJ18 B57 B52 1977 (YCBA)Martin Butlin, Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1981, p. 312, no. 366, pl. 347, NJ18 B57 B874 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christie's Sales Catalogue : Catalogue of fine English pictures and drawings : 27 October 1961, Christie's, London, October 27, 1961, p. 15, lot no. 43, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)Henry Crabb Robinson, Lives of William Blake, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, p. 139, NJ18.B57 A12 2020a (YCBA)Roger R. Easson, William Blake : Book illustrator : A bibliography and catalogue of the commercial engravings, vol. 1, The American Blake Foundation, 1972, p. 43, no. 5, NJ18 B57 E28 + oversize (YCBA)Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake, with selections from his poems and other writings , The Macmillan Company, London, 1880, pp. 224-5 (v.1), p. 216 (v.2), no. 74, PR4146 G55 1880 (YCBA) 2 volumesMatthew Hargraves, William Blake and Paul Mellon : the life of the mind, Open Knowledge Foundation, New York, 2014, [ p. 8], fig. 7, V 2557Matthew Hargraves, William Blake and Paul Mellon : the life of the mind, Open Knowledge Foundation, New York, 2014, [ p. 8], fig. 7, http://openglam.org/2014/10/07/william-blake-and-paul-mellon-the-life-of-the-mindLucinda Hawksley, Fifty British Artists You Should Know, Prestel, Munich : New York, NY, 2011, p. 46, N6796 .H39 2011 (YCBA)Geoffrey Keynes, Tempera paintings of William Blake, A critical catalogue , Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951, p. 18, no. 9, NJ18 B57 K495 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 200 (v.1), no. 382, pl. 17, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 73, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, , The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, pp. 36-7, 53, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA)Archibald G. B. Russell, Engravings of William Blake, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912, p. 88, no. 20 (v.), NJ18 B57 R85 1912 (YCBA)Ruthven Todd, William Blake the artist, Studio Vista, London, 1971, pp. 67-69, NJ18.B57 T63 (YCBA)William Blake, Tate Publishing, London, p. 118, cat. 97, NJ18.B57 M97 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor : Essays, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, pp. 329, 331, Fig. 1 (b/w), N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)Thomas Wright, Life of William Blake, Paul P. B. Minet, Chicheley House, 1929, pp. 9-10 (v.2), PR4146 W7 1972 (YCBA)