- Museum number
- 1949,1112.3
- Description
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The sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter, illustration to the Bible painted for Thomas Butts, from Judges, xi, 30-1, 39; man with his back to the viewer kneels in centre in front of altar with both arms outstretched, woman kneels to front on altar, clasping her hands together in prayer, dark clouds above. 1803
Pen and grey ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Width: 330 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1876 London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 'William Blake', no.168
1906 Jun-Jul London, Carfax Gallery, 'Frescoes, prints and drawings by William Blake', no.39
1910 Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Works by Blake from the G. Robertson collection [no cat.]
1913-14 London, Tate Gallery, 'William Blake', no.9
1913-14 Manchester, Whitworth AG, 'William Blake', no.8
1913-14 Nottingham, Castle MAG, 'William Blake', no.6
1913-14 Edinburgh, NGS, 'William Blake', no.3
1927 London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 'Blake centenary exhibition', no.6
1947 Paris, Antwerp, Zürich, London, Tate Gallery, 'William Blake', no.6
1949 Apr-Jun Bournemouth, Southampton, Brighton, 'Blake from the Graham Robertson Collection', no.29
1957-8 BM 'William Blake and his circle', no.19
1969 May-Jun Manchester, Whitworth AG, 'William Blake: poet, printer, prophet', no.27
2000 April-June, Helsinki City Art Gallery, 'William Blake'
2000 Sep-Nov, Prague Castle, 'William Blake'
2018 Jan-Mar, West Sussex, Petworth House, William Blake in Sussex
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,1112.3
