William Blake
1757-1827
Samson Breaking his Bonds
1805
15 9/16 x 14 1/16 inches (396 x 357 mm)
Watercolor, over pencil, on paper.
1974.43
Bequest of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials in pen and black ink at lower right, "inv. WB".
Associated names
Butts, Thomas, 1759-1846, former owner.
Strange, J. C., former owner.
Smith, George, former owner.
Rimmell, former owner.
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, former owner.
Field, J. L., former owner.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.
Thorne, Landon K., Mrs., former owner.
Strange, J. C., former owner.
Smith, George, former owner.
Rimmell, former owner.
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, former owner.
Field, J. L., former owner.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.
Thorne, Landon K., Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Blake Collection of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, exhibition catalogue by G.E. Bentley, Jr., Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1971, no. 23, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 153.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 153.
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