Relief etching and watercolour on paper
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Europe Fragment Pages 3 and 4
Presented by Mrs John Richmond 1922
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: features
Blake, William, ‘Europe a prophecy’, 1794
cloud
figure
flying
inscriptions
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
people
symbols and personifications
weather
wing
word
paper unique relief etching watercolour
13 September 2010 – 7 December 2010
2010-12-07
13 September 2010 – 7 December 2010
2010-12-07
2010-09-13
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2010-09-13
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2017-05-07
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William Blake
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‘Europe’: Fragment of Pages 3 and 4
support: 92 × 166 mm
Presented by Mrs John Richmond 1922
<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-europe-fragment-of-pages-3-and-4-a00034" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A00034</span></a> <b><i>Europe:</i> Fragment of Pages 3 and 4</b> 1794/<i>c.</i>
1830–5 (recto and verso)
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<p>A 00034 /-
<br/>Relief etching, printed in grey and finished in watercolour (probably not by Blake), cut irregularly 92×166 (3 5/8×6 1/2)
<br/>Presented by Mrs John Richmond 1922
<br/>PROVENANCE	
<br/>?Mrs Blake; Frederick Tatham; his brother-in-law George Richmond, sold Christic's 29 April 1897 (in 147 with 22 other items; see no.2) £2.10.0 bt Dr Richard Sisley; his daughter Mrs John Richmond
<br/>LITERATURE
<br/>Keynes <i>Bibliography</i> 1921, pp.139–44; Erdman <i>Illuminated Blake</i> 1974, pp.155–73, book repr.; Bentley <i>Blake Books</i> 1977, pp.141–64 no.33 (this work pp.143, 162 (as pages 6–7)); Bindman <i>Graphic Works</i> 1978, pp.472–3 nos.167–184, book repr.</p>
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<br/><i>Europe</i> is dated 1794 on the title-page and is not included in Blake's prospectus <i>To the Public</i> of 10 October 1793 (Keynes <i>Writings</i> 1957, pp.207–8). This fragment may well have been printed posthumously (see <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-songs-of-innocence-and-of-experience-infant-sorrow-a00035" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A00035</span></a>- <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-songs-of-innocence-title-page-a00039" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>A00039</span></a>) and the colouring appears too harsh to be by Blake himself. For the full text of pp.3 and 4 see Keynes <i>Writings</i> 1957, pp.239–40.
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<br/>This work was formerly inventoried as no.3694 iv.</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
2004-07-09T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults animals: features Blake, William, ‘Europe a prophecy’, 1794 cloud figure flying inscriptions literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) people symbols and personifications weather wing word