id: 127561 accession number: 1950.239 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.239 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:15.246000 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1805 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1810 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- 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 --- CREATORS * William Blake (British, 1757–1827) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 37.9 x 32.5 cm (14 15/16 x 12 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in black ink: [artist's monogram:8 inv / wb] translation: remark: inscription: verso, upper center, in graphite: G [collector's mark? (not in Lugt)] translation: remark: inscription: across bottom, in graphite: no. 9 [S?]ingle translation: remark: inscription: across bottom, in graphite: The Holy Family / Jesus-Mary-Joseph-Elizabeth + St. John translation: remark: inscription: lower center, in graphite: 50/ [7?] translation: remark: --- 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE Thomas Butts [1757-1845], London date: after 1805-by 1845 footnotes: citations: Thomas Butts Jr. date: probably after 1845-by 1853 footnotes: citations: (his sale, Property of Thomas Butts, Esq., Messrs. Foster and Son, London, June 29, 1853, no. 127, sold to Henry George Bohn) date: 1853 footnotes: *
as Holy Family.
citations: Henry George Bohn [1796-1884], London date: 1853-? footnotes: citations: Alexander Anderdon Weston [1822-1901; Lugt 65], by descent to his widow date: ?-1901 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Alexander Anderdon Weston date: 1901-1904 footnotes: citations: (her anonymous sale, Christie's, London, June 28, 1904, no. 5, sold to E. Parsons) date: 1904 footnotes: citations: E. Parsons, sold to W. Graham Robertson date: 1904 footnotes: citations: W. Graham Robertson [1866-1948], London date: 1904-1949 footnotes: citations: (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., London, July 22, 1949, no. 24, probably sold to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London) date: 1949 footnotes: citations: (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: 1949-1950 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1950- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: Exhibition of the Works of William Blake. Exh. Cat. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1876. page number: Mentioned: no. 144 url: 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 url: Richter, Helene. William Blake. Strassburg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1906. page number: Mentioned: p. 173; Reproduced: pl. V url: Exhibition of Works by William Blake. Exh. Cat. London: Carfax and Co., Ltd., 1906. page number: Mentioned: p. 19, no. 69 url: 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 url: 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 url: 77th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings. Exh. Cat. London: Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., 1950. page number: Mentioned: no. 74 url: Preston, Kerrison. The Blake Collection of W. Graham Robertson. London: Faber and Faber, 1952. page number: Mentioned: pp. 144-45 url: Keynes, Sir Geoffrey. William Blake's Illustrations to the Bible. London: Trianon, 1957. page number: Mentioned: pp. 30-31, no. 104; Reproduced: pl. 104 url: The Art of William Blake. Exh. Cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1957. page number: Mentioned: p. 19, no. 26 url: 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 url: Hoover, Suzanne. "Pictures at the Exhibition." Blake Newsletter 21 (1973): 6-13. page number: Mentioned: pp. 8-9; Reproduced: fig. 3 url: Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz. Blake's Human Form Divine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. page number: Mentioned: pp. 332-35; Reproduced: pl. 87 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.239/1950.239_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.239/1950.239_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.239/1950.239_full.tif