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- William Blake 1757–1827
- Medium
- Graphite on paper. verso: graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 488 × 389 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs John Richmond 1922
- Reference
- A00033
Catalogue entry
A00033 Sketch for ‘The Four and Twenty Elders casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne’ c. 1803 (recto) Standing Figure with Arms at his Side c. 1805–10(?) (verso)
A 00033 / B 516
Pencil 488×389 (19 1/4×15 5/16); the drawing on the verso is upside down
Inscribed on recto by Frederick Tatham ‘William Blake - First design. sketch, Frederick Tatham’ b.r.
Presented by Mrs John Richmond 1922
PROVENANCE Mrs Blake; Frederick Tatham; his brother-in-law George Richmond, sold Christie's 29 April 1897 (in 147 with 22 other items: see no.2) £2.10.0 bt Dr Richard Sisley; his daughter Mrs John Richmond
LITERATURE Butlin 1981, pp.367–8 no.516, pls.612 and 614
The recto is a sketch for N05897. The verso could be for some such subject as a ‘Raising of Lazarus’, though it is nothing like the figure in the watercolour painted for Thomas Butts (see N05199). It is similar in character to the versi of A00043, A00049 and A00048.
This work was formerly inventoried as no.3694 i.
Published in:
Martin Butlin, William Blake 1757-1827, Tate Gallery Collections, V, London 1990
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