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Portrait of William Blake

After Thomas Phillips
1770-1845

Portrait of William Blake

8 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches (222 x 175 mm)
Watercolor on paper, trimmed to an arch at top.
2004.33

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1903.

Notes
Copy after the portrait by Phillips in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Purchased with twenty-one original drawings by William Blake executed for Thomas Butts, ca. 1805-10, illustrating the Book of Job.
Associated names
Butts, Thomas, 1759-1846, former owner.
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron, 1809-1885, former owner.
Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department