Europe a Prophecy: Two Plates Plate 13: 'In thoughts perturb'd' (Bindman 177, Bentley 33, pp. 154) Plate 14: 'Albion's Angel rose' (Bindman 178; Bentley 33, pp. 154)

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William Blake
Europe a Prophecy: Two Plates Plate 13: 'In thoughts perturb'd' (Bindman 177, Bentley 33, pp. 154)
Plate 14: 'Albion's Angel rose' (Bindman 178; Bentley 33, pp. 154)
relief etchings with white-line engraving, 1794, printed in colours and extensively finished by hand with watercolour, on either side of an un-watermarked sheet of wove paper, similar to Whatman, the hand-colouring in black, yellow and blue/green (plate 13), and grey/black, jade green, two shades of brown and tomato red (plate 14), window mounted into a support at the sheet edges, otherwise generally in very good condition
S. 251 x 195mm.

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Lot Essay

One other sheet with plates 13 and 14 printed recto and verso is recorded, currently in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, formerly part of the so-called 'Order' volume. This book, a compendium of many of Blake's works and documents relating to his life, was assembled by George A. Smith in the early 1850's, and sold in these rooms on 1st April, 1880, lot 168, for #66. Mr Robert Essick and Professor Joseph Viscomi believe that the hand-colouring in the present example, with its broad areas of colour on plate 14, points to Catherine Blake as the colourist, rather than her husband. A comparison with Copy D of Europe in the British Museum supports this conclusion.

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