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William Blake

The Soul Hovering Over the Body [from Marriage of Heaven and Hell," plate 14], c. 1796

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series Title

A Small Book of Designs (copy B): no.5

Medium

relief etching, color-printed

Dimensions

image: 4.2 × 10.1 cm (1 5/8 × 4 in.)

sheet: 12.5 × 18.8 cm (4 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bindman 1978, no. 293

Accession Number

1943.3.8989

Artists / Makers

William Blake (artist) British, 1757 - 1827

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Inscription

upper right in ink: 9; bottom center in ink: "a Flaming Sword" / "Revolving every way"

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Lugt 1760b); stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d)

Provenance

John Varley [1778-1842], London. Sydney Morse [1854-1929], London; (his sale, Christie's, London, 26 July 1929, lot 19). (Charles Sessler [1854-1935], Philadelphia); purchased 10 March 1930 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Morse, Sydney
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Sessler, Charles
Varley, John

Exhibition History

1948: Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, 1948.

1961: Blake, New Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1961, no cat.

Bibliography

1953: Kenyes, Geoffrey and Edwin Wolf. William Blake's Illuminated Books: A Census. New York: The Grolier Club of New York, 1953, no. 5, 86.

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