The Dance of Albion (Glad Day), c. 1803/1810

Not on View

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

image: 27 x 19.4 cm (10 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 30.8 x 23.2 cm (12 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bindman 1978, no. 400

Accession Number

1943.3.8990

Artists / Makers

William Blake (artist) British, 1757 - 1827

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: WB inv 1780 (Bindman: either the date of conception or of first state); across bottom in plate: Albion rose from where he labourd at the Mill with Slaves / Giv

Exhibition History

1957: The Art of William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1957, no. 67, repro.

1965: William Blake, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1965, no. 18, repro.

1965: William Blake, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no cat.

1996: William Blake, Fundación "la Caixa," Madrid; Fundació "la Caixa," Barcelona, 1996

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2000: William Blake, Tate Britain, 2000-2001.

2000: William Blake, Tate Britain, London, 2000-2001.

Bibliography

1978: Bindman, David. The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 362; fig.6.41, 363.