Title(s):
Spring Songs of Innocence
Maker(s):
Blake, William; printmaker; British artist, 1757-1827
Tatham, Frederick; printer; British artist, 1805-1878
Category:
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)
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Identifier: