File:Illustrations to Robert Blair's The Grave , object 8 Death of the Strong Wicked Man.jpg
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English: Illustrations to Robert Blair's The Grave, object 8 Death of the Strong Wicked Man. Death of the Strong Wicked Man |
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| Date | 1805 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | pen and ink and water colors over traces of pencil on wove paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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not on view This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Prints and Drawings). |
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RF 54420  |
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| Object history |
objects 1-3, 5-20 offered Sotheby's New York, 2 May 2006; object 4 sold Christie's London, 9 Nov. 1971 Price: various, as indicated for each object in the note on provenance, below Note: commissioned from Blake by Robert H. Cromek in the fall of 1805 (Cromek probably paid £21 for the group of 20 finished designs); Thomas Sivright of Edinburgh; sold from Sivright's collection, C. B. Tait auction, Edinburgh, 10 Feb. 1836, lot 1835, described as a "Volume of Drawings by Blake, Illustrative of Blair's Grave" and "entitled," apparently on a label no longer extant, "Black Spirits and White, Blue Spirits and Grey (£1.1s., possibly to John Stannard or a dealer acting for him); John Stannard of Bedford; his son, Henry John Stannard, possibly by inheritance in 1882; his son, Henry John Sylvester Stannard, possibly by inheritance in 1920; his son, Henry Lawrence Stannard, possibly by inheritance in 1951; his nephew, a Glasgow resident, possibly by inheritance in 2000; sold in 2000 or 2001 to Caledonia Books, Glasgow, object 4 no longer part of the group; the group of 19 designs (objects 1-3, 5-20) acquired jointly in 2001 from Caledonia Books by Paul Williams of Fine Books, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, and Jeffrey Bates of Bates & Hindmarsh, Leeds (£1000); Marburg Ltd. (the London dealer Libby Howie acting as agent) by Dec. 2002 (reportedly about £4.9 million); offered individually at Sotheby's New York, 2 May 2006, in 19 lots as follows: lot 1, object 1 ($744,000 to a private collector); lot 2, object 17 ($576,000 to Hinrich Sieveking acting for the Winterstein Collection, Munich); lot 3, object 8 ($1,584,000 to the Louvre Museum, Paris); lot 4, object 18 ($912,000 to H. Charles and Jessie Price, Dallas, Texas); lot 5, object 7 (not sold); lot 6, object 15 ($1,024,000 to a private collector); lot 7, object 9 (not sold; sold June 2006 to a private collector); lot 8, object 11 (not sold); lot 9, object 12 (not sold; sold June 2006 to a private collector); lot 10, object 16 (not sold; sold June 2006 to a private collector); lot 11, object 20 ($632,000 to a private collector); lot 12, object 3 (not sold; sold no later than June 2008 to a private collector); lot 13, object 6 (not sold); lot 14, object 14 (not sold; sold June 2008 to Robert N. Essick); lot 15, object 19 ($329,600 to a private collector); lot 16, object 13 ($329,600 to the dealer John Windle acting for Robert N. Essick); lot 17, object 10 ($318,400 to a private collector); lot 18, object 2 ($329,600 to Alan Parker, London); lot 19, object 5 ($318,400 to Alan Parker, London). Object 4 was originally part of this group of designs, as the style and size of the backing mount indicate, but became detached from the other 19 designs at an unknown time, possibly by the mid-nineteenth century. This may be the design sold from the stock of the dealer Joseph Hogarth, Southgate and Barrett auction, London, 7 June 1854, lot 237, described as "Children at the Grave of their Parent" (with 5 others, 11s. to H. Palser). The later history of object 4 is as follows: J. F. Hall by 1876; the dealer Carfax & Co., London; Mrs. Louisa Bishop, nee Salaman, by 1912; her son, Euston Bishop, probably by gift or inheritance; sold Sotheby's, 19 May 1958, lot 11 (£280 to the dealer Agnew's acting for Gwen, Lady Melchett); sold from Lady Melchett's collection, Christie's, 9 Nov. 1971, lot 74 (£2100 to the dealer Baskett and Day acting for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon); given by Mellon in 1975 to the Yale Center for British Art. |
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Mounted on cardboard mounts and thus any watermarks, if present, are not visible. There are framing lines on the mounts of objects 2-20 in the Blake Archive scans, but not on the sheets of paper bearing the designs. The mounts measure 33.0 x 26.5 cm.; two mounts show an 1800 watermark. This early watermark makes it possible that the publisher, Robert Cromek, had the drawings mounted shortly after acquiring them from Blake and displayed them in this form to potential subscribers to his forthcoming edition of The Grave. Formerly (c. 1821-2006) housed, unbound, in a red morocco wallet-style portfolio lined with red glazed paper showing a Beilby & Knotts 1821 watermark. This portfolio was sold at Sotheby's New York, 2 May 2006, lot 20 ($5040 to the dealer John Windle, who in turn sold the portfolio to a California private collector in July 2006). |
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