Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Eagle

William Blake
1757-1827

The Eagle

5 13/16 x 3 13/16 inches (147 x 96 mm)
Brush and black wash, over pencil, on paper.
1974.58

Gift of the Thorne Foundation in memory of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Design for the engraving in Hayley's "Ballads", No. 2, July 1802, or possibly for the edition of all fifteen ballads in 1805.
Associated names
Blake, William, Mrs., former owner.
Tatham, Frederick, former owner.
Palser, former owner.
Maitland, W. Fuller, former owner.
Ellis, former owner.
Reigh, former owner.
Daniel, E., former owner.
Tregaskis, J., former owner.
Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham), 1866-1948, former owner.
Rosenbach, Dr., former owner.
Thorne, Landon K., Mrs., former owner.
Little, Beatrice, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 153.
Blake Collection of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, exhibition catalogue by G.E. Bentley, Jr., Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1971, no. 21, repr. (includes full bibliography).
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department