Title:
Agnes
Maker:
Blake, Catherine; painter; British painter, 1762-1831
Category:
painting
Name:
painting
Date:
circa 1800
School/Style:
British
Production
Note:
An illustration to M.G. Lewis's 'The Monk', published 1795.
Technique:
painting (image-making)
Material(s):
tempera; medium
canvas; support
Technique
Description:
tempera on canvas
Dimension(s):
height, 14, cm
width, 15.3, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1985; Keynes, Geoffrey
Provenance:
Mrs. Butts; Thomas Butts Jnr.; Capt. F.J. Butts; his widow, sold April 1906, through Carfax to W. Graham Robertson, sold Christie's 22 July 1949, lot 82, bt. Walsh for Geoffrey Keynes
Acquisition Credit:
Accepted by H.M. Treasury from the estate of Sir Geoffrey Keynes and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum through the Minister of the Arts in lieu of capital taxes.
Inscription:
; verso; Agnes from the Novel of the Monk / Designed & Painted by Catherine Blake / and Presented by her in Gratitude and / Friendship to Mrs. Butts.; inscription by William Blake
Exhibition(s):
William Blake: Tempera Paintings. 1951
Venue: Arts Council, London
Notes: lent by Geoffrey Keynes
Catalogue number: 32
(Cambridge, 1951). 1951
Venue: Cambridge
Gothic nightmares: Fuseli, Blake, and the Romantic Imagination. 2006-02-15 - 2006-05-01
Organiser: Tate Britain
Venue: Tate Britain, London?
Catalogue number: 66
Documentation:
Butlin, Martin. 1981. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake.
no. C.1., plate 1191, with previous literature
Accession:
Object Number: PD.152-1985
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 3114; input: 2000-03-20; modified: 2011-03-03)
Permanent
Identifier:
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