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accession number: 1950.239
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The Holy Family (Christ in the Lap of Truth), c. 1805. William Blake (British, 1757–1827). Black, gray, and brown ink applied with pen and point of brush; gray, pink, yellow, and green wash; sheet: 37.9 x 32.5 cm (14 15/16 x 12 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.239
title: The Holy Family (Christ in the Lap of Truth)
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creation date: c. 1805
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1810
current location:
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: England, London, 18th century
technique: black, gray, and brown ink applied with pen and point of brush; gray, pink, yellow, and green wash
department: Drawings
collection: DR - British
type: Drawing
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Butlin 471
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CREATORS
* William Blake (British, 1757–1827) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 37.9 x 32.5 cm (14 15/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
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inscription: signed, lower right, in black ink: [artist's monogram:8 inv / wb]
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inscription: verso, upper center, in graphite: G [collector's mark? (not in Lugt)]
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inscription: across bottom, in graphite: no. 9 [S?]ingle
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inscription: across bottom, in graphite: The Holy Family / Jesus-Mary-Joseph-Elizabeth + St. John
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inscription: lower center, in graphite: 50/ [7?]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: 77th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings
opening date: 1950-01-01T05:00:00
77th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings. Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London (organizer).
title: The Art of William Blake
opening date: 1957-10-19T04:00:00
The Art of William Blake. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (October 19-December 1, 1957).
title: Aspects of Drawing
opening date: 1961-01-10T05:00:00
Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961).
title: Drawings
opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
title: European Watercolors Through the 18th Century
opening date: 1964-01-14T05:00:00
European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 14-March 22, 1964).
title: Neo-classicism: Style and Motif
opening date: 1964-09-23T04:00:00
Neo-classicism: Style and Motif. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration
opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00
Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
title: British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2013-02-10T00:00:00
British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of the Works of William Blake. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London (1876).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Works by William Blake. Carfax and Co. Ltd., London (June 14 - July 31, 1906).', 'opening_date': '1906-06-14T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Century of Art Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers. Grafton Galleries, London (June - July, 1911).', 'opening_date': '1911-06-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'William Blake (1757 – 1827). Tate Gallery, London (1947).', 'opening_date': '1947-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Thomas Butts [1757-1845], London
date: after 1805-by 1845
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Thomas Butts Jr.
date: probably after 1845-by 1853
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(his sale, Property of Thomas Butts, Esq., Messrs. Foster and Son, London, June 29, 1853, no. 127, sold to Henry George Bohn)
date: 1853
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as Holy Family.
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Henry George Bohn [1796-1884], London
date: 1853-?
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Alexander Anderdon Weston [1822-1901; Lugt 65], by descent to his widow
date: ?-1901
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Mrs. Alexander Anderdon Weston
date: 1901-1904
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(her anonymous sale, Christie's, London, June 28, 1904, no. 5, sold to E. Parsons)
date: 1904
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E. Parsons, sold to W. Graham Robertson
date: 1904
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W. Graham Robertson [1866-1948], London
date: 1904-1949
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(his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., London, July 22, 1949, no. 24, probably sold to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London)
date: 1949
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(Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: 1949-1950
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Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1950-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Gilchrist, Alexander and William Michael Rossetti. Life of William Blake: "Pictor Ignotus," with Selections from His Poems and Other Writings. London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, 1863.
page number: Mentioned: vol. 2, p. 230, no. 182
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Exhibition of the Works of William Blake. Exh. Cat. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1876.
page number: Mentioned: no. 144
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Gilchrist, Alexander and William Michael Rossetti. Life of William Blake with Seleions from His Poems and Other Writings. London: Macmillan, 1880.
page number: Mentioned: vol. 2, p. 243, no. 207 or 209
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Richter, Helene. William Blake. Strassburg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1906.
page number: Mentioned: p. 173; Reproduced: pl. V
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Exhibition of Works by William Blake. Exh. Cat. London: Carfax and Co., Ltd., 1906.
page number: Mentioned: p. 19, no. 69
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de Selincourt, Basil. William Blake. London: Duckworth, 1909.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 200-202; Reproduced: between pp. 200 and 201
url: https://archive.org/details/williamblake007928mbp/
The Century of Art Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers. Exh. Cat. London: Grafton Galleries, 1911.
page number: Mentioned: p. 35, no. 125
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Russell, Archibald. "The Graham Robertson Collection." Burlington Magazine 37, no. 208 (July 1920): 27-29, 32-35, 39.
page number: Mentioned: p. 34
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/861049
Russell, Archibald. William Blake (1757-1827). Exh. Cat. London: Tate Gallery, 1947.
page number: Mentioned: p. 37, no. 76
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77th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings. Exh. Cat. London: Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., 1950.
page number: Mentioned: no. 74
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Preston, Kerrison. The Blake Collection of W. Graham Robertson. London: Faber and Faber, 1952.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 144-45
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Keynes, Sir Geoffrey. William Blake's Illustrations to the Bible. London: Trianon, 1957.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 30-31, no. 104; Reproduced: pl. 104
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The Art of William Blake. Exh. Cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1957.
page number: Mentioned: p. 19, no. 26
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 608
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n113
Hawley, Henry. Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 117, no. 122
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Hoover, Suzanne. "Pictures at the Exhibition." Blake Newsletter 21 (1973): 6-13.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 8-9; Reproduced: fig. 3
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Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz. Blake's Human Form Divine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 332-35; Reproduced: pl. 87
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Butlin, Martin. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: p. 351, no. 471, 484, under no. 671; Reproduced: pl. 556
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Heppner, Christopher. Reading Blake's Designs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
page number: Mentioned: p. 194
url:
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 7, 188-89, no. 77; Reproduced: p. 189
url:
Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
page number: Mentioned: p. 11, 54-55, 143, no. 16; Reproduced: p. 17 (detail), 55
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