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Title(s):

Spring Songs of Innocence

Maker(s):

Blake, William; printmaker; British artist, 1757-1827
Tatham, Frederick; printer; British artist, 1805-1878

Category:

print

Name:

print

Date:

1789
This copy was printed c. 1831

School/Style:

British

Production
Note:

Posthumous impression

Technique:

relief etching

Material(s):

grey ink; medium
paper; support

Dimension(s):

height, plate, 116, mm
width, plate, 80, mm
height, sheet, 241, mm
width, sheet, 197, mm

Acquisition:

bequeathed; 1985-04; Keynes, Sir Geoffrey

Provenance:

From the collection of Mrs Sidney Morse, Christie's, 19 March 1937.

Acquisition Credit:

Allocated by H.M. Treasury through the Minister of the Arts, accepted in lieu of capital taxes

Inscription:

title; image upper centre; printed; Spring

Alternative
Number(s):

Bindman; 231; 1978
Bentley; 139 M; 1977

Documentation:

Bindman, David. 1970. William Blake: catalogue of the Blake collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): W. Heffer and Sons Ltd.

Related Object(s):

P.673-1985; Spring
P.701-1985; Title-page
P.703-1985; The Blossom
P.704-1985; Holy Thursday
P.705-1985; The Little Black Boy (second plate)
P.706-1985; The Voice of the Ancient Bard

Accession:

Object Number: P.702-1985
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 31560; input: 2001-07-04; modified: 2005-02-24)

Permanent
Identifier:

http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31560