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The Whirlwind: Ezekiel's Vision of the Cherubim and Eyed Wheels (Illustration to the Old Testament, Ezekiel I 4–28)
William Blake (English, 1757–1827)
about 1803–05
Medium/Technique
Black ink and watercolor over black chalk on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 39.4 x 29.5 cm (15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number90.108
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Butlin 468
ProvenanceThomas Butts (b. 1757 – d. 1845), London; by descent to Thomas Butts, Jr., London; June 29, 1853, Butts sale, Foster and Son, London, lot 125, sold to H. B, for £1.2.0. By 1876, H. C. Strange, Highgate [see note 1]; 1883, sold or consigned by J. C. Strange, Highgate, to Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., London; August 1883, offered by Quaritch as part of item 13842, catalogue 350, for £1,200 [see note 2]; 1890, sold by Quaritch to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 29, 1890)
NOTES:
NOTE 1: Strange is credited with lending the watercolor to the the Exhibition of the Works of William Blake (Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1876),where it included as catalogue number 64.
NOTE 2: 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: Strange is credited with lending the watercolor to the the Exhibition of the Works of William Blake (Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1876),where it included as catalogue number 64.
NOTE 2: 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.