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begin page 260 | ↑ back to topHANDLISTS OF FOUR BLAKE COLLECTIONS
Work on these handlists was begun in 1972 with the cooperation of the institutions involved. In the course of preparing final copy, I have examined every Blake original in all four collections. I have not attempted to provide full catalogue information for each entry, as that is not the function of a handlist: the purpose of this material is to aid users and prospective users of the four collections. For the same reason, I have not thought it necessary to impose a strict uniformity of presentation, as the four museums vary somewhat in their modes of classifying material. However, in instances where an item has been catalogued by a museum under a title different from that normally used, I have given one or the other title in brackets.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the assistance I have received from members of the curatorial staffs of the museums involved, namely Miss Eunice Williams and Mrs. Margaret P. Morgan of the Fogg Museum; Dr. John J. McKendry, Mrs. Dwight E. Lee, and Miss Carolyn Joynes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Dr. C. Michael Kauffmann of the Victoria and Albert Museum; and Mrs. Karin Peltz of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. I am also grateful to Mrs. Foster Foreman and to Miss Betsy Bowden for research assistance; and to Miss Deirdre Toomey, Dr. David Bindman, and Professor Robert N. Essick for their valuable advice.
M. D. P.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
I. COLOR PRINTS
God Judging Adam [Elijah in the Fiery Chariot] (Genesis 3:17-19)
Pity
II. DRAWINGS & WATERCOLORS
| The Angel of the Divine Presence Bringing Eve to Adam [She Shall Be Called Woman] (Genesis) | 06.1322.2 |
| The Flight into Egypt (Matthew 2:14) | 06.1322.1 |
| Angel of the Revelation (Revelation 10:5) | 14.81.1 |
| The Wise and Foolish Virgins (Matthew 25:1-9) | 14.81.2 |
1 Frontispiece of Jerusalem.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.
III. PAINTING (TEMPERA ON COPPER)
The Angel Gabriel appearing to Zacharias (Luke 1 :8-13)
IV. ENGRAVINGS
B105-126 Illustrations to the Book of Job (1826), as below:
| B105 | Title-page |
| B106 | Thus did Job continually (i :5) |
| B107 | When the Almighty was yet with me, When my Children were about me (xxix:5) |
| B108 | Thy Sons & thy Daughters were eating & drinking Wine in their eldest Brother’s house . . . (i:18) [or, The Fire of God is Fallen from Heaven] |
| B109 | And I only am escaped alone to tell thee (i:16) |
| B110 | Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord (ii:7) |
| B111 | And smote Job with sore Boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head (ii:7) |
| B112 | And when they lifted up their eyes afar off & knew him not, they lifted up their voice & wept . . . (ii:12) [or, What! Shall we recieve Good at the hand of God & shall we not also recieve evil (ii:10)] |
| B113 | Let the Day perish wherein I was Born (iii:3) |
| B114 | Then a Spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up (iv:15) |
| B115 | The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn (xii:4) |
| B116 | With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me & affrightest me with Visions (vii:14) |
| B117 | I am Young & ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid (xxxii:6) |
| B118 | Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind (xxxviii:1) |
| B119 | When the morning Stars sang together, & all the Sons of God shouted for joy (xxxviii:7) |
| B120 | Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee (x1:19) |
| B121 | Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked (xxxvi:17) |
| B122 | I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear but now my Eye seeth thee (x1ii:5) |
| B123 | And my Servant Job shall pray for you (1xii:8) |
| B124 | Every one also gave him a piece of Money (x1ii:11) |
| B125 | There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job in all the land & their father gave them inheritance among their Bretheren (x1ii:12) |
| B126 | So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning (x1ii:12) |
B127-131, 133 Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy, as below:
| B127 | The Whirlwind of Lovers |
| B128 | The Malebranche tormenting Ciampolo |
| B129 | Two of the Malebranche quarrelling |
| B130 | Agnello and Cianfa merging into a single body |
| B131 | Bouso Donati attacked by the Serpent |
| B133 | Dante striking Bocca degli Abbati’s head with his foot |
| B135 | George Cumberland’s Message Card (state 2) |
B138-140, 142-146, 148-153 Illustrations [wood engravings] to Thornton’s Virgil’s Eclogues, with Imitations by Ambrose Phillips, Pope, and Others (3rd ed., 1821), as below:
| B138 | (Colinet) Nor lark would sing, nor linnet, in my state (state 2, two impressions) |
| B139 | (Thenot) Yet though with years my body downward tend . . . (state 2) |
| B140 | (Colinet) Thine ewes will wander . . . (state 2) |
| B142 | (Thenot) Sure thou in hapless hour of time was born . . . (state 2, two impressions) |
| B143 | (Thenot) Nor fox, nor wolf, nor rot among our sheep . . . (state 2) |
| B144 | (Colinet) Unhappy hour! when fresh in youthful bud I left . . . (state 2, two impressions) |
2 Clarence’s Dream [after Stothard], from William Enfield, The Speaker (1774
[plates dated 1780]), Book VII, Chapter 22.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917.
| B145 | (Colinet) A fond desire strange lands and swains to know (state 2, two impressions) |
| B146 | (Thenot) A rolling stone is ever bare of moss |
| B148 | (Colinet) Untoward lads, the wanton imps of spite . . . |
| B149 | (Thenot) For him our yearly wakes and feasts we hold (two impressions) |
| B150 | (Thenot) This night they care with me forget . . . (two impressions) |
| B151 | (Thenot) New milk and clouted cream, mild cheese and curd . . . |
| B152 | (Thenot) With songs the jovial hinds return from plow (two impressions) |
| B153 | (Thenot) And unyok’d heifers, loitering homeward, low |
| B385 | Frontispiece of Jerusalem (Illus. 1) |
| R40 | Robert Blair, The Grave [Schiavonetti after Blake] (restrikes on laid India paper with 1813 imprint), as below: |
| R40i | Title-page |
| R40ii | Christ descending into the Grave |
| R40iii | The meeting of a Family in Heaven |
| R40iv | The Counsellor, King, Warrior, Mother & Child in the Tomb |
| R40v | Death of the Strong Wicked Man |
| R40vi | The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with life |
| R40vii | The descent of Man into the Vale of Death |
| R40viii | The Day of Judgment |
| R40ix | The Soul exploring the recesses of the Grave |
| R40x | The Death of The Good Old Man |
| R40xi | Death’s Door |
| R40xii | The Reunion of the Soul & the Body |
| R45 | Clarence’s Dream [after Stothard], from William Enfield, The Speaker (1774 [plates dated 1780]), Book VII, Chapter 22 (Illus. 2) |
| R71 | When my Hero in Court Appears [after Hogarth], from The Beggar’s Opera (1790), Act III (Illus. 3) |
| R88ii | The Death of Lucretia [after Fuseli], in Allen’s A New and Improved Roman History (2nd ed., 1798) |
| R117 | Richard Gough, Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain, Vol. I, Part I (1786) and Vol. I, Part II (1796) [some plates designed and probably executed by Blake], in Metropolitan Museum of Art Library |
3 The Death of Lucretia [after Fuseli], in Allen’s A New and Improved Roman History
(2nd ed., 1798).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1940.
V. ILLUMINATED BOOKS
B180-233 Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794), as below:
| B180 | General title, Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul |
| B181 | Frontispiece to Songs of Innocence |
| B182 | Title-page, with sub-title Songs of Innocence |
| B183 | Introduction |
| B184 | The Shepherd |
| B185 | The Ecchoing Green |
| B186 | The Ecchoing Green, cont’d |
| B187 | The Lamb |
| B188 | The Little Black Boy |
| B189 | The Little Black Boy, cont’d |
| B190 | The Blossom |
| B191 | The Chimney Sweeper |
| B192 | The Little Boy Lost |
| B193 | The Little Boy Found |
| B194 | Laughing Song |
| B195 | A Cradle Song |
| B196 | A Cradle Song, cont’d |
| B197 | The Divine Image |
| B198 | Holy Thursday |
| B199 | Night |
| B200 | Night, cont’d |
| B201 | Spring |
| B202 | Spring, cont’d |
| B203 | Nurse’s Song |
| B204 | Infant Joy |
| B205 | A Dream |
| B206 | On Another’s Sorrow |
| B207 | Frontispiece to Songs of Experience |
| B208 | Title-page, with sub-title Songs of Experience |
| B209 | Introduction |
| B210 | Earth’s Answer |
| B211 | The Clod and the Pebble |
| B212 | Holy Thursday |
| B213 | The Little Girl Lost |
| B214 | The Little Girl Lost, cont’d, and The Little Girl Found |
| B215 | The Little Girl Found, cont’d |
| B216 | The Chimney Sweeper |
| B217 | Nurse’s Song |
| B218 | The Sick Rose |
| B219 | The Fly |
| B220 | The Angel |
| B221 | The Tyger |
| B222 | My Pretty Rose Tree; Ah! Sunflower; The Lilly |
| B223 | The Garden of Love |
| B224 | The Little Vagabond |
| B225 | London |
| B226 | The Human Abstract |
| B227 | Infant Sorrow |
| B228 | The Poison Tree |
| B229 | A Little Boy Lost |
| B230 | A Little Girl Lost |
| B231 | To Tirzah |
| B232 | The Schoolboy |
| B233 | The Voice of the Ancient Bard |
VI. FACSIMILES
| B18-36 | For Children. The Gates of Paradise (Muir facsimile, 1888, copy 28) |
| B154-169 | There is No Natural Religion (Muir facsimile, 1886, copy 47) |
| B237-242 | Book of Thel (Muir facsimile, 1920, copy 29) |
| B243-255 | Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Muir facsimile, 1885, copy 42) |
| B256-266 | The Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Muir facsimile, 1884, copy 8) |
| B267-285 | America (Muir facsimile, 1887, copy 44) |
| B285-302 | Europe (Muir facsimile, 1887, copy 49) |
| B303-330 | The First Book of Urizen (Muir facsimile, 1888, copy 16) |
| B331-338 | The Song of Los (Muir facsimile, 1890, copy 16) |
| B350-384 | Milton (Muir facsimile, 1886, copy 39) |
| B385-472 | Jerusalem (Trianon Press facsimile, 1950) |
| B347-348 | Hayley, Little Tom the Sailor (Muir facsimile, 1925) |
| R15 | The Ancient of Days (Muir facsimile) |
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
I. ENGRAVINGS
| R10c | A Scene in the Last Judgment. Satans’ [sic] holy Trinity. The Accuser, The Judge & the Executioner | 23.452 |
| R24 | Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims | 28.822 |
| R24 | Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims | 29.902 |
| R33 | Illustrations of the Book of Job, proof set (i-xxii), as below: | 30.820 |
| R33i | Title-page | |
| R33ii | Thus did Job continually (i:5) | |
| R33iii | When the Almighty was yet with me, When my Children were about me (xxix:5) | |
| R33iv | Thy Sons & thy Daughters were eating & drinking Wine in their eldest Brother’s house . . . (i:18) [or, The Fire of God is Fallen from Heaven] | |
| R33v | And I only am escaped alone to tell thee (i:16) | |
| R33vi | Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord (ii:7) | |
| R33vii | And smote Job with sore Boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head (ii:7) | |
| R33viii | And when they lifted up their eyes afar off & knew him not, they lifted up their voice & wept . . . (ii:12) [or, What! Shall we recieve Good at the hand of God & shall we not also recieve evil (ii:10)] | |
| R33ix | Let the Day perish wherein I was Born (iii:3) | |
| R33x | Then a Spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up (iv:15) | |
| R33xi | The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn (xii:4) | |
| R33xii | With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me & affrightest me with Visions (vii:14) |
| R33xiii | I am Young & ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid (xxxii:6) | |
| R33xiv | Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind (xxxviii:1) | |
| R33xv | When the morning Stars sang together, & all the Sons of God shouted for joy (xxxviii:7) | |
| R33xvi | Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee (xl:19) | |
| R33xvii | Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked (xxxvi:17) | |
| R33xviii | I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear but now my Eye seeth thee (xlii:5) | |
| R33xix | And my Servant Job shall pray for you (lxii:8) | |
| R33xx | Every one also gave him a piece of Money (xlii:11) | |
| R33xxi | There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job in all the land & their father gave them inheritance among their Brethren (xlii:15) | |
| R33xxii | So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning (xlii:12) | |
| R34 | Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy, as below: | |
| R34i | The Whirlwind of Lovers | 27.823 |
| R34ii | The Malebranche tormenting Ciampolo | 27.824 |
| R34iii | Two of the Malebranche quarrelling | 27.825 |
| R34iv | Agnello and Cianfa merging into a single body | 27.826 |
| R34v | Buoso Donati attacked by the Serpent | 27.827 |
| R34v | Buoso Donati attacked by the Serpent | 23.451 |
| R34vi | The Circle of the Falsifiers—Griffolino and Capocchio | 27.828 |
| R34vii | Dante striking Bocca degli Abbati’s head with his foot | 27.829 |
| Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy [restrike] | ||
| R35 | Christ with a Bow, Trampling Upon Satan [Thomas Butts, Jr., after Blake; 20th century restrike] | 61.409 |
| R36 | George Cumberland’s Message Card | 25.615 |
| R36 | George Cumberland’s Message Card | 30.821 |
| R40v | Death of the Strong Wicked Man | 23.456 |
| R40x | The Death of The Good Old Man | 23.457 |
| R42 | John Whitaker, The Seraph. A Collection of Sacred Music (1820), Vol. II [Jones after Blake] | 53.40 |
| R48 | John Scott, Poetical Works (1782), as below: | |
| R48i | Damon at Delia’s Tomb [after Stothard] (Eclogue IV) | 10.309 |
| R48ii | Frontispiece to the Elegies [after Stothard] | 10.307 |
| R48iii | Frontispiece to “The Mexican Prophecy” [after Stothard] | 10.308 |
| R48iv | Tailpiece to the last poem [after Stothard] | 10.311 |
| R48 | Scott, Poetical Works, Errata Sheet | |
| R58i | The Temple of Mirth [after Stothard] | 10.313 |
| R79a | Fertilization of Egypt [after Fuseli], from The Botanic Garden (1791) | 57.20 |
| R79b | Tornado [after Fuseli], from The Botanic Garden (3rd ed., 1795) | 57.19 |
| R88iv | The Death of Cleopatra [after Fuseli], from Allen’s A New and Improved Roman History (2nd ed., 1798) | 10.312 |
| R92 | Rev. John Caspar Lavater: of Zurich | 10.306 |
| R94iii | Thomas Hayley, the Disciple of John Flaxman from a Medallion, from Hayley, An Essay on Sculpture (1800) | 23.455 |
| R96ii | Mrs. Cowper, Mother of the Poet, from Hayley, The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper (1803-4) | 10.305 |
| R96v | A View of St. Edmund’s Chapel, from Hayley, The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper (1803-4) | 23.453 |
| R96vi | A Sketch of the Monument Erected in the Church of East Dereham in Norfolk, from Hayley, The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper (1803-4) | 23.454 |
II. BOOKS
| R80 | John Gay, Fables (1793), 2 vols. | 64.326a.-b. |
| R79 | Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden (1795), 2 vols. [Blake after Fuseli] | 64.327 |
| R17 | Edward Young, The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts (1797) | B.Reg.1545a |
| R17 | Edward Young, The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts (1797) | B.Reg.2836 |
| R17 | Edward Young, The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts (1797) (hand colored) | B.Reg.2837 |
| R19 | William Hayley, Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals (1805) | 64.347 |
| R40xi | Robert Blair, The Grave (1808) [see R8xviii, R17xii, R21, R22] | 63.265 |
| R40xi | Robert Blair, The Grave (1808), gray boards (subscriber’s copy) [see R8xviii, R17xii, R21, R22] | 64.348 |
| R30 | Robert John Thornton, The Pastorals of Virgil, with a Course of English Reading (1821) | 64.354 |
| R33 | Illustrations from the Book of Job (1826) [proofs on India, bound] | B.Reg. 2835 |
| R33 | Illustrations of the Book of Job | M33340 |
| R33 | Illustrations of the Book of Job | B.Reg. 1571 |
| R33 | Illustrations of the Book of Job, second state proof | 10.448 |
| R18 | William Hayley, Little Tom the Sailor (London: William Blake Society, 1917) | 64.371 |
III. DRAWINGS & WATERCOLORS
Illustrations (9) to Paradise Lost, as below:
| Christ Accepting the Office of Redeemer (3:227 ff.) | 90.94 |
| Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve (4:492 ff.) | 90.96 |
| Adam and Eve Sleeping (4:798 ff.) | 90.102 |
| The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (5:443 ff.) | 90.97 |
| The Casting of the Rebel Angels into Hell (6:835 ff.) | 90.98 |
| The Creation of Eve (8:470 ff.) | 90.95 |
| The Temptation and Fall of Eve (9:791 ff.) | 90.99 |
| The Expulsion from Eden (12:632 ff.) | 90.100 |
| Michael Foretelling the Crucifixion to Adam (12:411 ff.) | 90.101 |
| Lucifer and the Pope in Hell (Isaiah 14:4-20) | 90.103 |
| Famine | 90.104 |
| Plague | 90.105 |
| Pestilence: Death of the First Born (Exodus 12:29) | 90.106 |
| Moses Erecting the Brazen Serpent (Numbers 21:9) | 90.107 |
| The Whirlwind: Ezekiel’s Vision of the Cherubim and Eyed Wheels (Ezekiel 1:4-28) | 90.108 |
| Goliath Cursing David (I Samuel 17: 43-44) | 90.109 |
| The Woman Taken in Adultery (John 8: 8-9) | 90.110 |
| Abraham Preparing to Sacrifice Isaac (Genesis 22:9-13) | 90.111 |
| Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:33) [color-printed drawing] | 27.354 |
Illustrations (7) to Shakespeare, as below:
| Lear and Cordelia | 90.112 |
| Juliet | 90.113 |
| Cordelia and the Sleeping Lear | 90.114 |
| Macbeth and Lady Macbeth | 90.115 |
| Othello and Desdemona | 90.116 |
| Lear Grasping a Sword | 90.117 |
| Falstaff and Prince Hal | 90.118 |
4 The Stoning of Achan [The Blasphemer], or possibly a sketch for
Jerusalem, pl. 25, in red chalk.
165 × 230 mm. Fogg Art Museum.
Illustrations (8) to Comus, as below:
| Comus with His Revellers (53-77 and stage directions) | 90.119 |
| Comus Disguised as a Shepherd, Addresses the Lady in the Wood (92 ff.) | 90.120 |
| The Brothers Plucking Grapes (290 ff.) | 90.121 |
| The Brothers Meet the Attendant Spirit in the Wood (489 ff.) | 90.122 |
| The Magic Banquet, with the Lady Spell-Bound (658-64 and stage directions, 810 ff.) | 90.123 |
| The Brothers Driving out Comus (813 ff. and stage directions) | 90.124 |
| Sabrina Disenchanting the Lady (907-20) | 90.125 |
| The Lady Restored to Her Parents (945 ff. and stage directions) | 90.126 |
Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University
I. DRAWINGS & WATERCOLORS
| The Stoning of Achan [The Blasphemer], or possibly a sketch for Jerusalem, pl. 25, in red chalk (Illus. 4) | 1959.162 |
| Old Man and Two Women (verso: Female Figure with the Head of a Horse) | 1967.45 |
| Female Figure with the Head of a Horse (verso: Old Man and Two Women) (Illus. 5) | 1967.45 |
| The Procession of Draped Figures [formerly attributed to Flaxman] | 1970.97 |
| St. Michael Binding Satan [Angel Binds the Dragon] (Revelation 12:10-12) | 1915.8 |
| Christ Blessing | 1943.180 |
| Lord Remember Me | 1943.400 |
| The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve [Cain Fleeing After the Death of Abel] (Genesis 4) | 1943.401 |
| War (Illus. 6)[e] | 1943.402 |
| Simeon Prophesying Over the Infant Christ [The Presentation of Christ in the Temple] (Luke ii:25) | 1943.403 |
| By the Waters of Babylon (Psalms 137:1-3) | 1943.404 |
| The Resurrection (Matthew 28:6) | 1943.405 |
| Adam and Eve in Paradise | 1943.406 |
| The Burial of Moses [The Devil Rebuked] (Deuteronomy 34:6 and Jude 9) | 1943.407 |
| Philoctetes and Neoptolemus at Lemnos | 1943.408 |
| Fallen Angels (Illus. 7) | 1943.409 |
Illustrations of the Book of Job (1826) [part of one set of original watercolor designs], as below:
| B106 | Thus did Job continually (i:5) (illus. no. I) | 1943.420 |
| B108 | Thy Sons & thy Daughters were eating & drinking Wine in their eldest Brother’s house . . . (i:18) [or, The Fire of God is Fallen from Heaven] (illus. no. III) | 1943.419 |
| B109 | And I only am escaped alone to tell thee (i:16) (illus. no. IV) | 1943.421 |
| B110 | Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord (ii:7) (illus. no. V) | 1943.411 |
| B111 | And smote Job with sore Boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head (ii:7) (illus. no. VI) | 1943.418 |
| B112 | And when they lifted up their eyes afar off & knew him not they lifted up their voices & wept . . . (ii:12) [or, What! Shall we recieve Good at the hand of God & shall we not also recieve evil (ii:10)] (illus. no. VII) | 1949.423 |
| B113 | Let the Day perish wherein I was Born (iii:3) (illus. no. VIII) | 1943.417 |
| B114 | Then a Spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up (iv: 15) (illus. no. IX) | 1943.412 |
| B115 | The Just Upright Man is laughed to scorn (xii:4) (illus. no. X) | 1943.426 |
| B116 | With Dreams upon my bed thou scarest me & affrightest me with Visions (vii:14) (illus. no. XI) | 1943.422 |
| B117 | I am Young & ye are very Old wherefore I was afraid (xxxii:6) (illus. no XII) | 1943.416 |
| B118 | Then the Lord answered Job out of the Whirlwind (xxxviii:1) (illus. no. XIII) | 1943.413 |
| B119 | When the morning Stars sang together, & all the Sons of God shouted for joy (xxxviii:7) (illus. no. XIV) | 1943.410 |
5 Female Figure with the Head of a Horse (verso: Old Man and Two Women).
122 × 98 mm. Graphite on white paper. Fogg Art Museum.
| B120 | Behold now Behemoth which I made with thee (xl:19) (illus. no. XV) | 1943.415 |
| B121 | Thou hast fulfilled the Judgment of the Wicked (xxxvi:17) (illus. no. XVI) | 1943.425 |
| B122 | I have heard thee with the hearing of the Ear but now my Eye seeth thee (xlii:5) (illus. no. XVII) | 1943.424 |
| B123 | And my Servant Job shall pray for you (lxii:8) (illus. no. XVIII) | 1943.414 |
| B124 | Every one also gave him a piece of Money (xlii:11) (illus. no. XIX) | 1943.427 |
| B125 | There were not found Women fair as the Daughters of Job in all the land & their father gave them inheritance among their Bretheren (xlii:15) (illus. no. XX) | 1943.428 |
6 War.
298 × 385 mm. Fogg Art Museum.
Illustrations to Dante’s Divine Comedy, as below:
| Dante and Virgil on the edge of the Stygian Pool at the foot of a tower | 1943.658 |
| Dante and the Usurers | 1943.659 |
| Dante, Virgil and Cato | 1943.660 |
| The Terrace of Envious Souls | 1943.661 |
| The Circle of Traitors: The Alberti Brothers | 1943.429 |
| Dante Seizing the Traitor Bocca by the Hair (verso: Head of a Cardinal) | 1943.430 |
| The Complaint of the Giant Nimrod | 1943.431 |
7 Fallen Angels.
192 × 286 mm. Fogg Art Museum.
| Agnello de Brunelleschi of Florence being transformed into a serpent | 1943.432 |
| Dante and Virgil among the Blasphemers | 1943.433 |
| Donati transformed into a serpent (Guercio Cavalcanti retransformed from a serpent to a man) | 1943.434 |
| Dante and Virgil gazing into the ditch of the flatterers | 1943.435 |
| Demons tormenting the seducers of Malebolge[e] | 1943.436 |
| The Minotaur | 1943.437 |
| Lucia carrying Dante in his sleep | 1943.438 |
| Dante and Virgil in the skiff of Phlegyas are hailed by Filippo Argenti | 1943.439 |
| The Circle of Carnal Sinners | 1943.440 |
| Ugolino’s Narrative (Ugolino Relating His His Death) | 1943.441 |
| The Shades of Homer and other poets of antiquity | 1943.442 |
| Virgil rescues Dante from the Evil Demons (Dante and Virgil escaping from the Devils) | 1943.443 |
| The Centaurs and the river of Blood | 1943.444 |
| Charon and the Condemned Souls | 1943.445 |
| The Demons tormenting Ciampolo the Barrator | 1943.446 |
| The punishment of Rusticucci and his companions | 1943.447 |
Victoria & Albert Museum
I. DRAWINGS & WATERCOLORS
| Seated man wearing cloak (?representing Shakespeare), reading large volume supported on left knee; two women stand behind | E.65-1948 | |
| Two figures kneeling, the one in foreground with arms upraised; also a slight sketch of an arm | E.66-1948 | |
| Satan Arousing His Rebel Angels (illus. to Paradise Lost I.299-303) | 6856 (F.A.697) | |
| The Healing of the Woman with an Issue of Blood [The Woman Touching Christ’s Garment] (Matthew 9:20) | 1689-1871 | |
| The Transfiguration (Luke 9:30) | 827-1884 | |
| Ruth and Naomi (Ruth 1:8-18) [color print] | 69-1894 | |
| St. Gregory the Great and the English Captives | A.L.6868 | |
| Moses at the Burning Bush (Exodus 3:2) | A.L.9285 | |
| Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42) | A.L.9286 | |
| Mercy and Truth Are Met Together (Psalms 85:10) | A.L.9287 | |
| Tiriel Carried by Ijim (illus. to Tiriel) (Illus. 8) | D.148-1890 | |
| A woman gazing at the prostrate body of a man, around which a serpent is coiled (possibly a Dantesque subject) | 8761.A | |
| Female figure swimming in stream with bearded male figure on right and seated male figure on left; spirit flies down toward swimmer (possibly a Dantesque subject) (verso: sketches of human figures) | 8761.B | |
| Sketches of human figures (verso: female figure swimming in stream with bearded male figure on right and seated male figure on left) | 8761.B | |
| K25 | Little Tom the Sailor (design for head piece) | 8762.A |
| K21 | An Angel Descending: Dante’s Divine Comedy. Study fo “The Angel Descending at the Close of the Circle of the Proud” (verso: illus. to Purgatorio) | 8762.B |
| K21 | Illustration to Purgatorio (verso: An Angel Descending) | 8762.B |
| K37 | Los and Enitharmon (sketch for plate 14 of Jerusalem) | 8763.A |
| K9 | Ugolino in Prison (sketch for plate 12 of The Gates of Paradise) (verso: sketch of Blake) | 8763.B |
| K9 | Sketch of Blake (verso: Ugolino in Prison, sketch for plate 12 of The Gates of Paradise) | 8763.B |
| K33 | Milton and Ololon (sketch for plate 41 of Milton) (verso: pencil sketches) | 8764.A |
| K33 | Pencil Sketches (verso: Milton and Ololon, sketch for plate 41 of Milton) | 8764.A |
| K23 | Theotormon Woven | 8764.B |
| K1 | Glad Day, sketch (verso: sketch of Albion) | 8764.C |
| K1 | Albion, sketch (verso: sketch for Glad Day) | 8764.C |
| The Serpent Caressing Eve, probably a sketch for The Temptation and Fall of Eve (verso: sketch of man outstretched on a St. Andrew’s cross) | 8765.A | |
| Sketch of a man outstretched on a St. Andrew’s cross (verso: The Serpent Caressing Eve, probably a sketch for The Temptation and Fall of Eve) | 8765.A | |
| Urizen Scattering His Thunderbolts | 8765.B | |
| K29 | Death of the Strong Wicked Man, sketch (verso: sketch of the Ascension) | 8765.C |
| K29 | Sketch of the Ascension (verso: sketch for Death of the Strong Wicked Man) | 8765.C |
| The Finding of Moses [The Compassion of Pharoah’s Daughter] (Exodus 2:7-8) | P.25-1949 |
8 Tiriel Carried by Ijim.
Victoria and Albert Museum
| The Third Temptation (Matthew 4:2) | P.26-1949 | |
| The Fall of Man | P.29-1953 | |
| Satan Calling Up His Legions | P.8-1950 | |
| The Virgin and Child in Egypt (Matthew 2:15) | P.25-1953 | |
| The Infant Jesus riding on a Lamb | P.26-1953 | |
| The Christ Child Asleep on a Cross | P.27-1953 | |
| Eve tempted by the Serpent (Genesis 3:1-16) | P.28-1953 | |
| The Angels Hovering over the Body of Jesus in the Sepulchre [Christ in the Sepulchre Guarded by Angels] | P.6-1972 | |
| The Angel Rolling the Stone from the Sepulchre (Matthew 28:2) | P.7-1972 |
II. BOOKS
| R68 | John Caspar Lavater, Aphorisms on Man (1788) [Blake after Fuseli] | 389A |
| R80 (i-xii) | John Gay, Fables (1793), 2 vols. | 371[A or B] |
| R17 (i-xliii) | Edward Young, The Complaint, and The Consolation; or, Night Thoughts (1797) | 422 |
| R100 (i-iii) | John Flaxman, The Iliad of Homer (1805) [Blake after Flaxman] | 368A |
| R19 | William Hayley, Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals (1805) |
374 |
| William Blake, A Descriptive Catalogue (1809) | 31 | |
| R107 (i-xxxvii) | John Flaxman, Compositions from the Works and Days and Theogony of Hesiod (1817) [Blake after Flaxman] | 367A |
III. EARLY FACSIMILES
| Jerusalem (Pearson, 1877) | E.6125-6224-1905 |
| Marriage of Heaven and Hell (John (John Camden Hotten, 1868) | E.52-1906 95.c.67 |
| There is No Natural Religion (Pickering, 1886) | E.3371-3382-1906 93D.202 |
| Works by William Blake (1876) | E.1374-1516-1905 93.A.123 |
IV. PRINTS, ENGRAVINGS, ETCHINGS, &c.
| Jerusalem, plates 9 and 11 (Illus. 9) | E668-1899 EE.140b |
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| Christ with a Bow, Trampling upon Satan [(?)1827; possibly a posthumous impression made by Mr. Shaw of Walsall, 1903 or later] | E.268-1928 | |
| Mora’s Meditaciones (title-page missing) | E.1214-A-k-1886 J-3d(i) |
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| R40iii | The Meeting of a Family in Heaven (illus. to The Grave [1813]) | 19948 J3.d.(1) |
| Death’s Door (facsimile of Grave illus. from Scribner’s Monthly, 1881) | E.2988-1938 J-3.d.(1) |
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| R46 | Morning Amusement (after Watteau’s painting, “Le Rendez-vous de Chasse”[e]) | E.2987-1938 |
| R57 | Robin Hood and Clorinda | E.64-1948 ES + 6 |
| R77 | Rev. C. G. Salzmann’s Elements of Morality, Vol. I: plates 3, 5-12 [some unfinished] (Blake [?] after Chodowiecki) | E.653-661-1935 |
| R84 | Illustrations (11) to Narrative . . . by Capt. J. G. Stedman | E1215.A-D-1886 J3.d.(ii) |
| R85 | Illustrations (4, Blake after Cumberland) to George Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline, Sculpture, and the System that Guided the Ancient Artists in Composing Their Figures and Groups (1796), numbered 15, 16, 18, 80. [Note: the fact that the last is numbered “80” indicates that it is a late impression used as an illustration in Cumberland’s later work, Outlines from the Ancients, 1829. (Copy in the V & A Library.) In the earlier work it was plate 19.] | 29627.16, 26, 27, 30, Js.d.(i) |
| R85iv | Pl. 15: The Conjugal Union of Cupid | 29627.26 |
| R85v | Pl. 16: Cupid & Psyche | 29627.16 |
| R85vi | Pl. 18: Iron Age | 29627.30 |
| R85vii | Pl. [19]: Aristophanes Clouds. Scene 1. | 29627.36 |
| R92 | Rev. John Caspar Lavater: of Zurich | E.1650-1889 G.3.b |
| R108 | Mrs. Q[uentin] | E.2829-1938 EST.6. |
| R109 | Wilson Lowry, F.R.S, M.G.S. | 27222/pp/50 |
| Death’s-door (drawn and engraved by W. J. Linton after Blake) [“Thirty Pictures by Deceased British Artists engraved . . . for the Art-Union,” 1860, No. 10] | E.217-1905 95B.98 |
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| When the morning Stars Sang together . . . [from Job] (engraved by J. H. E. Whitney after Blake) (“Proofs from Scribner’s Monthly and St. Nicholas,” 2nd series, pl. x, 1881) | E.8081-1905 95B.98 |
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| R30 | Illustrations (17) to Thornton’s Virgil’s Eclogues, with Imitations by Ambrose Phillips, Pope, and Others (3rd ed., 1821) | E.1975-1991-1926 W.w.141 |
| There is No Natural Religion, series a (title-page, frontispiece and 6 plates from a set of 10; plate 7 [Proposition IV] and plate 10 [Conclusion] missing) | E.365-372/1956 EE.140 B. |
9 Jerusalem, pl. 11.
Victoria and Albert Museum
| There is No Natural Religion (plates 4 and 11 of a set of 11) | E.373. 374-1956 | |
| All Religions are One (title page only) | E.375-1956 | |
| Electrotype blocks (16) for plates 1-16 of Gilchrist’s Life (1863), reproducing 2 part-titles and 14 plates from Songs of Innocence, as below: | E.750-765-1955 V.9.c. |
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| Pl. 3: Songs of Experience | E.750-1955 | |
| Pl. 6: The Ecchoing Green | E.751-1955 | |
| Pl. 8: The Lamb | E.752-1955 | |
| Pl. 16: A Cradle Song | E.753-1955 | |
| Pl. 18: The Divine Image | E.754-1955 | |
| Pl. 24: Nurse’s Song | E.755-1955 | |
| Pl. 27: On Another’s Sorrow | E.756-1955 | |
| Pl. 29: Songs of Experience | E.757-1955 | |
| Pl. 33: Holy Thursday | E.758-1955 | |
| Pl. 34: The Little Girl Lost | E.759-1955 | |
| Pl. 36: The Little Girl Found | E.760-1955 | |
| Pl. 43: My Pretty Rose Tree Ah! Sun-Flower The Lilly | E.761-1955 | |
| Pl. 46: London | E.762-1955 | |
| Pl. 47: The Human Abstract | E.763-1955 | |
| Pl. 48: Infant Sorrow | E.764-1955 | |
| Pl. 53: The Schoolboy | E.765-1955 | |
| Illustrations to Dante (7 plates printed in a new edition of 25 from plates in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection) | E.4914-4920-1968 EE.60 |
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| The Beggar’s Opera (a portfolio compiled by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, various sizes) | E-4-16-1971 92.D.71 |