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.

Lot's Wife

After William Blake
1757-1827

Lot's Wife

10 7/16 x 5 1/2 inches (265 x 140 mm)
Graphite and gray, blue, and red wash, on tracing paper mounted on card.
1980.79:9b

Gift of Mr. Herman Cohen.

Notes
Copy on tracing paper by an unknown copyist of William Blake's drawing of Lot's Wife, designed to illustrate the general t.p. of Night V of Edward Young's Night thoughts; the original drawing now in the collection of the British Museum.
Summary

Full length sketch of a Lot's wife looking back over her shoulder towards a reddened background where the suggestions of a cityscape are brushed in.

Associated names
Cohen, Herman, former owner.
Young, Edward, 1683-1765. Night thoughts.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department