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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SIR GEOFFREY KEYNES
WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
The Tyger, from: Songs of Experience
細節
WILLIAM BLAKE (LONDON 1757-1827)
The Tyger, from: Songs of Experience
relief etching
the design printed in colours, the text printed in pale green, finished by hand with watercolour
circa 1793
on wove paper, without watermark
from the exceptionally rare First Issue, circa 1794, Copy G, Plate 42
printed by William Blake, hand coloured by William or Catherine Blake
with wide margins, with three stab holes at the left edge
Plate 110 x 63 mm.
Sheet 182 x 102 mm.
The Tyger, from: Songs of Experience
relief etching
the design printed in colours, the text printed in pale green, finished by hand with watercolour
circa 1793
on wove paper, without watermark
from the exceptionally rare First Issue, circa 1794, Copy G, Plate 42
printed by William Blake, hand coloured by William or Catherine Blake
with wide margins, with three stab holes at the left edge
Plate 110 x 63 mm.
Sheet 182 x 102 mm.
來源
With Quaritch, London, 1859-60 (bound, forty plates); and 1877 (rebound, fifteen plates); subsequently disbound and dispersed loose.
Possibly Julian Marshall (1836-1933), London; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1904, lot 36 (eight plates) (£13; to Quaritch, London).
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), London, Cookham Dean and Pangbourne.
W. G. O. Thomas; Sotheby's, London, 28 July 1947, lot 117 (with Plate 43, My Pretty ROSE TREE...) (£75; `...from the collection of Kenneth Grahame').
Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), Cambridge; acquired from the above, then by descent.
Possibly Julian Marshall (1836-1933), London; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1904, lot 36 (eight plates) (£13; to Quaritch, London).
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932), London, Cookham Dean and Pangbourne.
W. G. O. Thomas; Sotheby's, London, 28 July 1947, lot 117 (with Plate 43, My Pretty ROSE TREE...) (£75; `...from the collection of Kenneth Grahame').
Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), Cambridge; acquired from the above, then by descent.
出版
SELECTED LITERATURE:
G. Keynes, and E. Wolf 2nd, William Blake’s Illuminated Books, A Census, New York, 1953, p. 58 (this impression cited).
G. Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici: A Catalogue of the Library Formed by Geoffrey Keynes, London, 1964, no. 514 (this impression cited).
G. E. Bentley, Jr., Blake Books, Oxford, 1977, p. 415 (this impression cited).
D. Bindman, The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake, London, 1978, no. 248 (another impression illustrated).
M. Phillips, "Printing in the infernal method": William Blake's method of "Illuminated Printing", in: Interfaces, Volume 39, 2018, p. 83 (this impression illustrated).
R, Essick, and J. Viscomi, eds. The William Blake Archive. www.williamblakearchive.org. Accessed October 2025.
展覽
The British Museum, London, William Blake and his Circle, Bicentenary Exhibition, 1957, no. 35.3.
Tate Gallery, London, William Blake, March-May 1978, no. 56 (this impression illustrated).
Tate Gallery, London, William Blake, March-May 1978, no. 56 (this impression illustrated).
榮譽呈獻
Lucy Speelman
Junior Specialist, Head of Day Sale