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Queen Katherine's Dream
Blake, William
(Draughtsman)
History note: Painted for Thomas Butts (d. 1846); Thomas Butts, Jnr. (d. 1862); offered for sale at Sotheby's, 26 March 1852 (166), bt. by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (d. 1869) (for £9); Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Bart. (d. 1911); Dilke sale, Christie's, 10 April 1922 (127), bt. by Sydney Cockerell for the Friends of the Fitzwilliam (for 50 gns.)
Height: 399 mm
Width: 314 mm
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Method of acquisition: Given
(1911)
by
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Production date: AD 1807
Support composed of paper
Drawing (image-making) : Pen, grey wash, traces of graphite underdrawing, touched with colour paper
Accession number: 712
Primary reference Number: 17503
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: 30.H.7-59
Accession Number: 1771
Accession Number: P.10984-R
Accession Number: P.98-1953
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