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The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")
William Blake (English, 1757–1827)
1808
Medium/Technique
Black ink and watercolor with gold paint over graphite on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 49.8 × 39.8 cm (19 5/8 × 15 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number90.97
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Butlin 536 [06]
DescriptionMilton's Paradise Lost V, 443 sqq.
InscriptionsSigned lower right: W Blake 1808
ProvenanceProbably Thomas Butts (b. 1757 – d. 1845), London; possibly by descent to Thomas Butts, Jr., London; June 29, 1853, Butts sale, Foster and Son, London, part of lot 139, sold to J. C. Strange, Highgate, for £17.6.6 (price for lot); sold or consigned by Strange to Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., London; August 1883, offered by Quaritch as part of item 13842, catalogue 350, for £1,200 [see note 1]; 1890, sold by Quaritch to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 29, 1890)
NOTES:
NOTE 1: A group of 17 Blake watercolors and drawings for John Milton's Comus and Paradise Lost, as well as 9 Biblical scenes, were first offered together in Bernard Quaritch's catalogue 350, August 1883. The group did not sell, and was offered again in October 1883, May 1885, May 1887, and early 1890, when the works were shown in the United States, as advertised in A Hand-List of a Peerless Collection of Books and Manuscripts exhibited to the Bibliophiles of America. The Blakes were priced at £1,000 or $5,000.
NOTES:
NOTE 1: A group of 17 Blake watercolors and drawings for John Milton's Comus and Paradise Lost, as well as 9 Biblical scenes, were first offered together in Bernard Quaritch's catalogue 350, August 1883. The group did not sell, and was offered again in October 1883, May 1885, May 1887, and early 1890, when the works were shown in the United States, as advertised in A Hand-List of a Peerless Collection of Books and Manuscripts exhibited to the Bibliophiles of America. The Blakes were priced at £1,000 or $5,000.