Queen Katherine's Dream: 712

Awaiting location update

Titles

Queen Katherine's Dream

Maker(s)

Entities

Drawing

Notes

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.)

Measurements and weight

Height: 399 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 (1911) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dating

Production date: AD 1807

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Grey wash
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Pen, grey wash, traces of graphite underdrawing, touched with colour paper

Inscription or legends present

Text: W B inv
Location: Lower left
Type: Signature

Text: 1807
Location: Lower right, following the above
Type: Date

References and bibliographic entries

Life of William Blake page(s): see below
Life of William Blake (2nd Edition)
Life of William Blake (3rd Edition)
'The Blake Centenary' page(s): 261
Fuseli Studies page(s): 85, 116
Shakespeare and the Artist page(s): 81 ff
(Unknown; Apollo; 1966; Merchant) page(s): 323-34
William Blake: catalogue of the Blake collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge page(s): 27-8

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: 712
Primary reference Number: 17503
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020

Associated departments & institutions

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

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