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Queen Katherine's Dream Blake, William (draughtsman)
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Title/s	Queen Katherine's Dream
Maker/s	Blake, William (draughtsman) [ULAN info: British artist, 1757-1827]
Category	drawing
Name	drawing
School/Style	British
Technique Description	pen, grey wash, traces of graphite underdrawing, touched with colour paper
Dimensions	height: 399 mm width: 314 mm
Date	1807
Provenance	given: The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1911 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) Painted for Thomas Butts (d. 1846); Thomas Butts, Jnr. (d. 1862); offered for sale at Sotheby's, 26 March 1852 (166), bt. by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (d. 1869) (for £9); Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Bart. (d. 1911); Dilke sale, Christie's, 10 April 1922 (127), bt. by Sydney Cockerell for the Friends of the Fitzwilliam (for 50 gns.)
Inscriptions/Marks	signature Position: lower left Content: W B inv date Position: lower right, following the above Content: 1807
Documentation	Gilchrist, Alexander (1863) Life of William Blake, [page: see below] [comments: I, p. 3, II, p. 209, cat. no. 72.] Gilchrist, Alexander (1880) Life of William Blake (2nd Edition), Gilchrist, Alexander (1907) Life of William Blake (3rd Edition), Russell, Archibald G. B. 'The Blake Centenary', [page: 261] Source title: Apollo (1927) [comments: Fig. VI.] Antal, F. (1956) Fuseli Studies, [page: 85, 116] [comments: N. 109, pl. 31a.] Merchant, William Moelwyn (1959) Shakespeare and the Artist, London?: Oxford University Press [page: 81 ff] [comments: Plate 33.] Merchant, William Moelwyn (Unknown; Apollo; 1966; Merchant), [page: 323-34] Source title: Apollo (1966) [comments: Plates mixed up.] Bindman, David (1970) William Blake: catalogue of the Blake collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): W. Heffer and Sons Ltd. [page: 27-8] [comments: Cat. no. 27, plate 15.]
Material/s	grey wash (medium) graphite (medium) paper (support)
Accession Number	712 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 17503; Input Date: 2000-12-14 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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Queen Katherine's Dream

Blake, William (draughtsman)