Watercolour and graphite on paper
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after <a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-blake-39" aria-label="More by William Blake" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William Blake</a>
Raising Lazarus
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
arm / arms raised
aura
Bible: New Testament
birth to death
Christ
death
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
interiors
John, chapter 11
kneeling
Lazarus
miracle
mysticism
people
recoiling
religion and belief
religious
shock
society
standing
tomb
universal religious imagery
paper unique watercolour graphite
1 November 2011 – 21 October 2012
2012-10-21
3 July 2012 – 21 October 2012
2012-10-21
2012-07-03
Fundació “la Caixa” (Madrid, Spain)
2011-11-01
Blake Exhibition
Loan-out
The Raising of Lazarus
support: 431 × 322 mm
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-raising-of-lazarus-n05199" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05199</span></a> <b>The Raising of Lazarus</b>
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<br/>N 05199/-
<br/>Pencil and watercolour 430×320 (17×12 1/4)
<br/>Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940
<br/>PROVENANCE ?Carfax and Co. by 1906; Miss Carthew, ?after 1914
<br/>EXHIBITED ?Carfax 1906 (64); ?Manchester (27), Nottingham (19) and Edinburgh (29) 1914
<br/>LITERATURE Butlin 1981, p.357 under no.487
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<br/>This is a late 19th- or early 20th-century copy of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> painted for Thomas Butts and now in the Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums (Butlin 1981, no.487, pl.564). This is an illustration to John, xi, 43–4. The subject is often seen as a prefiguration of the Resurrection and Blake may have painted this watercolour as one of the series of depictions of the Passion. He had already treated this subject in <i>Night Thoughts</i> (Butlin no.330 <i>148</i>, repr. Erdman <i>Night Thoughts</i> 1980).</p>
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin, <i>William Blake 1757-1827</i>, Tate Gallery Collections, V, London 1990
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions arm / arms raised aura Bible: New Testament birth to death Christ death emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas interiors John, chapter 11 kneeling Lazarus miracle mysticism people recoiling religion and belief religious shock society standing tomb universal religious imagery