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Robert N. Essick
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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 56
John Windle provided an auspicious beginning for the 2022 Blake market with his February publication of catalogue 70, Present Joy. At 160 pages offering 809 items, this is the second-largest sale catalogue devoted to Blake and his circle, exceeded on
Autor:
Robert N. Essick
Publikováno v:
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 45
A splendid publication by the William Blake Trust features reproductions of Blake’s nineteen watercolors illustrating Robert Blair’s The Grave, rediscovered in 2001, and texts by Martin Butlin and Morton D. Paley. These drawings, plus Prone on th
Autor:
Robert N. Essick
Publikováno v:
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 45
Over the last two decades, scholars and collectors have been blessed with a remarkable series of discoveries of unrecorded or long-lost works by Blake. If this record has led us to expect new treasures almost every year, 2011 did not disappoint. By e
Autor:
Robert N. Essick
Publikováno v:
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 54
The 2020 Blake market, like much of the world’s commercial activity, was hindered by the Covid-19 pandemic. None of his drawings or paintings came fresh to market, nor any illuminated books or leaves therefrom, nor any rare separate plates. “Holy
Autor:
Robert N. Essick
Publikováno v:
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 53
The 2019 market began propitiously with the discovery, and offer for sale by the London dealer Peter Harrington, of a previously unrecorded copy of Edward Young’s Night Thoughts with Blake’s engravings hand colored. This January surprise was foll
Autor:
Robert N. Essick
Publikováno v:
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 52
Works by Blake’s circle and followers had a stronger presence in the 2018 auction season than his own productions. Henry Fuseli’s Vision of Orestes, offered by Christie’s New York in January, was bid a few steps over its high estimate to achiev
Autor:
Robert N. Essick
Publikováno v:
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 51
The 2017 market for significant works by Blake began with two of his watercolor illustrations for Robert Blair’s The Grave at Sotheby’s New York auction on 25 January. The vendor was probably Libby Howie acting for Marburg Ltd., as in the 2006 So
Autor:
Robert N. Essick
Publikováno v:
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 51
Martin Butlin has recently attributed to William Blake a previously unrecorded watercolor drawing of Adam and Eve Asleep based closely on the work of the same title in the series of Blake’s Paradise Lost designs commissioned by Thomas Butts in 1808
Autor:
Robert N. Essick
Publikováno v:
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. 50
Among Blake’s least studied major works are his watercolor illustrations to the Bible painted for his patron Thomas Butts. More than eighty are extant or have been recorded. The Hymn of Christ and the Apostles, one of only six remaining in private
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The Wordsworth Circle. 49:177-178