Skip to main content

Preludium: P.25-2018

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Preludium
Europe A Prophecy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William

Entities

Categories

Description

From the upper part of the plate. Printed in blue-green and finished by richly painting the image with watercolours. The design shows a squatting man with a dagger lying in wait for a traveller.

Notes

History note: George Richmond; given to his son John Richmond in 1890; GLK bt. from Mrs John Richmond in 1927.

Legal notes

From the collection of Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by HM Government from the estate of Anne Pinsent Keynes and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (2018) by H.M. Government

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1794

School or Style

British

Components of the work

Sheet Height 145 mm Width 170 mm

Techniques used in production

Relief etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.25-2018
Primary reference Number: 288403
Bentley: 4
Erdman: 1
Bindman: 169
Bindman (Blake): 520 iii

Audit data

Created: Wednesday 2 June 2021 Updated: Monday 16 January 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Preludium" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/288403 Accessed: 2024-04-24 02:57:27

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/288403 |title=Preludium |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-24 02:57:27|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-288403

More objects and works of art you might like

An image of Print

Preludium II

Accession Number: P.683-1985

An image of Print

Preludium

Accession Number: P.127-1950(3)

An image of Print

Preludium

Accession Number: P.127-1950(22)

An image of Keynes_Degas_1_201406_adn21_mas.jpg

Geoffrey Keynes

Accession Number: Keynes

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo