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William Blake

An Angel Teaching a Daughter of Men the Secrets of Sin, c. 1824/1827

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series Title

Book of Enoch

Medium

graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 52.6 x 37 cm (20 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Butlin 1981, no. 827, State 2

Accession Number

1944.14.6

Artists / Makers

William Blake (artist) British, 1757 - 1827

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Inscription

upper center: from the Book of Enoch; in later hand, lower center: .2

Exhibition History

1957: The Art of William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1957, no. 57b.

Bibliography

1973: Taylor, P., BLAKE NEWS, 7 1973-74, fig.B.

1975: Fine 1975, IV.A.6.

1981: Butlin, Martin. The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

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