BLAKE, William. Jerusalem The Emmanation of the Giant Albion: plate 25, Chapter 2 Heading (fragment) (Bentley 75; Bindman 507)

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BLAKE, William. Jerusalem The Emmanation of the Giant Albion: plate 25, Chapter 2 Heading (fragment) (Bentley 75; Bindman 507)

relief etching with white-line engraving, printed in reddish-brown ink, 1804-20, on wove paper, presumably a posthumous impression printed by Frederick Tatham, ca. 1832, cut into the subject, without the text below, generally in excellent condition, taped at the reverse of the upper sheet edge
S. 103 x 155mm.

Provenance

Possibly one of 30 leaves of Blakeana, anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 24 Feb. 1897, lot 809 (to Quanitch)
Rev. Stopford Brooke; Sotheby's. 27 July 1917, lot 795 (4.10.0 to Frank Rinder)
By descent to the present owner

Literature

G. E. Bentley, Jr., op. cit., pp. 227, 263

Lot Essay

The colour of the ink of this impression is similar to although not identical with the ink used in the complete but posthumous copy of Jerusalem in the Fitzwilliam (Bentley Copy H). Impressed more firmly onto the paper than the impression in the Fitzwilliam set this single sheet may be a cropped proof executed prior to the completion of the three posthumous sets (Bentley Copies H-J)

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