The Soldiers casting lots for Christ's Garments: PD.30-1949

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Soldiers casting lots for Christ's Garments

Maker(s)

Entities

Drawing

Notes

History note: Painted for Thomas Butts (d. 1846); Thomas Butts, Jnr. (d. 1862); his sale, Foster's, 29 June 1853 (92), bt. by R. Monckton Milnes (later Lord Houghton (d. 1885)) (for 14s); his son, later Marquess of Crewe (d. 1945); bt. by W. Graham Robertson from him in 1904; offered for sale at Christie's 22 July 1949 (33); bt. in by the executors (for £945)

Legal notes

Through the National Art Collections Fund.

Measurements and weight

Height: 420 mm
Width: 314 mm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1949) by Robertson, Walford Graham

Dating

Production date: AD 1800

School or Style

British

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Grey wash
Watercolour
Indian ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Pen, Indian ink, grey wash and watercolour on paper

Inscription or legends present

Text: WB inv
Type: Signature

Text: 1800
Type: Date

Inscription present: in artist's hand

Text: John XIXI c. 23 & 24 v (b.r.)
Location: Below

Text: No 2
Location: Verso

References and bibliographic entries

A Descriptive Catalogue of Blake's Exhibition page(s): 60
Life of William Blake page(s): 141, 122
The engravings of William Blake page(s): 33
The Paintings of William Blake
'The Blake Centenary' page(s): 260
And the Third Day page(s): 115
The Bible for my Grandchildren page(s): 106
The Blake Collection of W. Graham Robertson, Described by the Collector page(s): 102-3
The Works of William Blake in the Tate Gallery page(s): 584
The Art of William Blake page(s): 70
The Masters, Blake page(s): 8
(Unknown; Apollo; 1966) page(s): 384
(Unknown; Blake Studies; 1968) page(s): 71-2
William Blake: catalogue of the Blake collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge page(s): 22-4

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.30-1949
Primary reference Number: 17466
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 13 April 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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