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English: William Blake Visionary Head - Butlin 759

William Blake, 1757-1827, British

Title A Visionary Head

Alternate Titles Verso: Sketch of a Monument

Date 1819 to 1820


Medium Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (19.1 x 14.3 cm)

Inscription(s)/ Marks/ Lettering Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "Blakes writing on the Back-"; in brown ink, lower center: "Drawn by William Blake-"; in brown ink, lower right: "one of the heads of Personages Blake used to call up & see & sketch. supposed rapidly drawn from his Vision. Frederick Tatham"; inscribed on verso in graphite, center right: "Scale of Ten Feet"

Credit Line Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Accession Number B1975.4.43

Collection Prints and Drawings

Link to This Record

http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670861
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Source http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1670861
Author
William Blake  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q41513 s:en:Author:William Blake q:en:William Blake
 
William Blake
Alternative names
W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death 28 November 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 12 August 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
London; Felpham Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q41513

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A Visionary Head (c. 1819-1820). Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper, 19.1 x 14.3 cm (7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in).Yale Center for British Art

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