drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1867,1012.198
- Description
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Sketch for 'The widow embracing her husband's grave', illustration to Robert Blair's 'The Grave'. c.1805
Graphite
- Production date
- 1805 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 134 millimetres
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Width: 258 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Drawn on the back of paper taken from the 1802 edition of the second of Haley's ballads, used by Blake as scrap paper from 1805 onwards.
For further information about the series, see the curatorial comment for 1856,0712.208 and see the facsimile publication, 'William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in illustration of "The Grave" by Robert Blair', ed. Martin Butlin, and including essays by him and by Morton D. Paley (The William Blake Trust, 2009). This drawing is reproduced along with the final watercolour (now in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven) on pp. 68-9 (no.20).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Grave
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed by Tatham: "Slight sketch/vouched by Fredk Tatham"
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,1012.198