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Copy after William Blake
1757-1827
Donald the Hammerer
Pen and brown ink and wash, over pencil, on paper.
6 5/16 x 4 5/8 inches (159 x 118 mm)
Bequest of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
1974.52
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Watermark: none.
A copy after Blake's drawing, now at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink below drawing, "Donald the Hammerer".
Provenance:
John Linnell; sale, Christie's, London, 15 March 1918, lot 167 (with another drawing of the same title); Parsons, London; James Tregaskis; George C. Smith (sale, New York, Parke Bernet, 2 November 1938, lot 100)?; A.S.W. Rosenbach; Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Associated names:
Linnell, John, 1792-1882, former owner.
Parsons, former owner.
Smith, George C., former owner.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.
Thorne, Landon K., Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography:
Robert Essick, "The Blakes at UCLA," Blake Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 3, Winter 1971, 75-77.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 153.
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