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William Blake
1757-1827
Christ Trampling on Satan
[18--]
Copper engraving on laid paper.
Engraved design: 9 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (241 x 136 mm)
Gift of Gertrude W. Dennis in honor of Charles Ryskamp.
2002.62:2
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Posthumous impression.
See also records for the plate and another impression (2002.62:1 and 2002.62:3).
See also records for the plate and another impression (2002.62:1 and 2002.62:3).
Provenance
Thomas Butts and son; Captain Frederick Butts (grandson of Thomas Butts); sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 June 1903, lot 20; Edward J. Shaw of Walsall; sale, London, Sotheby's 29 July 1925, lot 158 (to Mansfield for 10 £ 10 s.); Erhard Weyhe, New York; by descent to Gertrude Weyhe Dennis, New York.
Associated names
Butts, Thomas, 1759-1846.
Butts, Thomas, 1788-1862.
Butts, Frederick J., Captain, former owner.
Shaw, Edward J., former owner.
Weyhe, Erhard, former owner.
Dennis, Gertrude W., former owner.
Butts, Thomas, 1788-1862.
Butts, Frederick J., Captain, former owner.
Shaw, Edward J., former owner.
Weyhe, Erhard, former owner.
Dennis, Gertrude W., former owner.
Bibliography
Keynes, Geoffrey. Engravings by Blake : The Separate Plates, Dublin, 1956, p. 35 (as engraved by Thomas Butts).<br>Essick, Robert. The Separate Plates of William Blake, Princeton, 1983, p. 213-219, pls. 89, 90 (as engraved by Thomas Butts, father and son, and most probably Blake).
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