File:William Blake - Death on a Pale Horse - Butlin 517.jpg

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William Blake: Death on a Pale Horse

Artist



Alternative names	W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description	English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death	28 November 1757	12 August 1827
Location of birth/death	London	London
Work location	London; Felpham
Authority file	: Q41513 VIAF: 54144439 ISNI: 000000012096135X ULAN: 500012489 LCCN: n78095331 NLA: 35019221 WorldCat

Origination: William Blake: inventor, delineator, colorist

Title

Death on a Pale Horse

Object type

watercolor painting

Description

English: William Blake - Death on a Pale Horse - Butlin 517

Date

c. 1800 ; 2005-04-06 07:07:26

Medium

pencil, pen and ink, and water color

Dimensions

height: 39.5 cm (15.5 in); width: 31.1 cm (12.2 in). Leaf Size: 39.5 x 31.1 cm.

Collection

The William Blake Archive

	Location	Digital Collection hosted on servers at UNC Chapel Hill
	Established	1996
	Website	http://www.blakearchive.org/
	Authority file	: Q7774989

Current location

Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB

United Kingdom

Object history

Commissioned from Blake and acquired by Thomas Butts c. 1800;
by inheritance in 1845 to Thomas Butts, Jr.;
by inheritance in 1862 to Frederick J. Butts;
sold Foster & Son auction, London, 29 June 1853, lot 91 (£ to the dealer P. & D. Colnaghi);
Alfred Aspland by 1863;
sold from his collection, Sotheby's, 27 Jan. 1885, lot 63 (£5.10s. to Colnaghi);
Crawford J. Pocock, offered Christie's, 12-14 May 1891, lot 585 (bought in by Pocock's widow at £12.12s.);
sold Sotheby's, 8 July 1895, lot 127 (£17.6s.6d. to the dealer Frederick Keppel);
possibly Frederick Hollyer;
sold Sotheby's, 24 June 1903, lot 42 (£60 to the dealer Bernard Quaritch acting for William A. White);

repurchased by Quaritch in 1914 and sold in Dec. 1914 for £60 to the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum for presentation to the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Notes

Name: Fitzwilliam Museum Date: 1914 Dealer: Bernard Quaritch

Price: £60

References

V&A item ID: O8330

Source/Photographer

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/gothic-nightmares-fuseli-blake-and-romantic-imagination/gothic-5

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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

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