Ariel leading Caliban by a chain [?] [graphic].
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Title
Ariel leading Caliban by a chain [?] [graphic].
Created/published
Nineteenth century.
Description
1 painting : oil on panel ; 8 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (21.2 x 27 cm)
Associated name
Blake, William, 1757-1827, artist, associated name.
Phillips, William W., former owner.
Phillips, William W., former owner.
Material base
wood
Note
Annotated at lower right: "W. Blake."
Martin Butlin writes that it "does not seem to be by Blake, unless by some faint chance it is an almost entirely overpainted work originally by him."
See Letter from Geoffrey Keynes to E. E. Willoughby, 1 September 1943, FSL files.
Title from Pressly.
Martin Butlin writes that it "does not seem to be by Blake, unless by some faint chance it is an almost entirely overpainted work originally by him."
See Letter from Geoffrey Keynes to E. E. Willoughby, 1 September 1943, FSL files.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Martin Butlin, "The Paintings of William Blake," New Haven and London, 1981, vol. 1, p. 610, mentioned in no. 848.
Provenance
Provenance: William W. Phillips sale, Walpole Galleries, Rare Books, Letters and Manuscripts, 10 E. 49th St., New York, 14 March 1918, lot 147, as "Ariel and Caliban?" by William Blake, 485, bought by Wells (price given by the New York American, 15 March 1918)
Source of acquisition
Bought by Folger, 19 March 1918, $175, as by William Blake.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Mead Art Building, Amherst College, "The Tempest" (no catalogue), 1951, as by Blake (?); Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 26, as Artist Unknown, formerly attributed to William Blake.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 104
Genre/form
Paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPa6 (range 104, boxed)
Folger-specific note
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Folger accession
cs765