Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:: 29-31 July 1925

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/653

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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142 THE SouL HOVERING OVER THE BODY RELUCTANTLY PARTING WITH Lire, sepia, framed and glazed 9 in. by 64 an. «* The design for one of the 12 plates in Blair’s “ Grave,” and the only one ot these designs recorded as surviving. Reproduced in a “ Studj aa Special Number, “ Pen and Pencil, 1923. aw With an impression of the engraving by Schiavonetti. 143 . Androcles and the Lion, ee enue framed ae glazed Androcles is seated ‘in a cave, the lion by his = ** Exhibited at the Bradford Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1904. 144 Joseph’s Dream, an unfinished composition, sepia, signed “W.B.” 93 in. by 7% m.; an angel appears to Joseph who used in the first design in Young’s “ Night Thoughts ” | 145 <A Pencil Drawing, 12 in. by 94 m., showing a kneeling figure hands grasping a bow; a background suggestive of flames 146 Two Studies, on one sheet, pen and pencil, faintly washed | reverse side of the sheet are pen studies, carefully drawn, of a tropical plant, with notes apparently in Blake’s handwriting: “in height an elm 2 or 3 feet diameter, _ the bark ligt (sic) bluish like cherry tree,” ete. 147 ae (G. H.) Portrait of William Blake, black crayon, 2 an. by 64 m.; half-length, nearly full-face, holding a fees in the left hand: date eee about 1810, framed and glazed aa) ** No. 11 of Mr. Keynes’ cm (p! 482). The drawing has been re-mounted by the present owner: a strip cut from the original mount and pasted at the back of the frame is inscribed in pencil: “ From Mr. Fuseli’s sale—William Blake—drawn from life by G. Harlow.” ENGRAVINGS. 148 THe Man SWEEPING THE INTERPRETER’S PARLOUR, one of the rare examples of Blake's “ woodcutting on pewter,” EXCEEDINGLY RARE (size of plate 621m. by 34 1n., on a folo sheet) Watermark J. Whatman, n. d. ** Described by Russell as “‘ one of the rarest as well as one of the most beautiful of all Blake’s prints.” 3 - |- ye ree

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