Menaclas watching women dance: P.489-1985

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Menaclas watching women dance
Colinet mocked by two Boys
Colinet resting by night
A rolling stone is ever bare of moss
Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William

Entities

Print

Categories

Print

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1985) by Keynes, Geoffrey

Dating

Production date: AD 1937

Note

Sheet of four proofs taken from the original woodblocks 'Colinet resting by night' is printed upside down, bound together.

School or Style

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Sheet Height 285 mm Width 218 mm

Techniques used in production

Inscription or legends present

Text: 12/11/10/9
Location: Right, vertically from top to bottom alongside prints
Method of creation: Handwritten in ink
Type: Numbers

Text: Geoffrey Keynes
Location: Upper right, leaf before the first sheet of proofs.
Method of creation: Handwritten in ink
Type: Signature

Text: These rough proof from Blake's/ original woodblocks were taken/ by the men who made the electrotypes/ for the Nonesuch Press edition in 1937
Location: Upper centre, leaf before the first sheet of proofs
Method of creation: Handwritten in ink
Type: Inscription

References and bibliographic entries

William Blake: catalogue of the Blake collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.489-1985
Primary reference Number: 118225
Bindman: 611 - 614
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 20 December 2019

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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