Summary
Copy Information
Title: Nebuchadnezzar
Origination: William Blake: inventor, delineator, printer, colorist
Composition Date: 1795
Print Date: c. 1804-05
Note: The characteristics of the color printing indicate that this impression is the first one printed c. 1804-05. The second impression in this printing is Nebuchadnezzar in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Butlin 303).
Number of Objects: 1
Object Size: 44.6 x 62.0 cm.
Number of Leaves: 1
Leaf Size: 54.5 x 72.5 cm.
Medium: planographic color printing with water color and pen and ink additions to the impression
Printing Style: planographic
Support: wove paper
Watermark: J Whatman 1804
Penned Numbers: none
Frame Lines: none
Binding: loose
Stab Holes: none
Provenance
Name: Tate Collection
Date: 1939
Dealer: none
Price: gift
Note: Acquired by Thomas Butts in 1805 from Blake; Thomas Butts, Jr., apparently by inheritance in 1845; Frederick J. Butts, apparently by inheritance in 1862; his widow, c. 1905, by inheritance; sold 1906 through Carfax and Co., London, to W. Graham Robertson; given 1939 by Robertson to the Tate Gallery (now Tate Collection).
Present Location
Tate Collection
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
United Kingdom
Telephone: 020-7887-8000
Fax: 020-7887-8900
E-mail: robin.hamlyn@tate.org.uk
URL: www.tate.org.uk
Collection: Tate Collection
Accession Number: N05059
Viewed on : Fri Apr 05 10:54:22 2013
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/copyinfo.xq?copyid=but301.1
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