About the Artwork
And Like a Corpse Fell to the Ground
1826
William Blake
1757-1827
English
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on chine collé
Plate: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (27.6 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 15 1/2 × 21 5/8 inches (39.4 × 54.9 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
42.120
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, in reverse, lower right of image: The W[illegible]ot Lovers [illegible] Dantes Inferno Canto V Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: 1
Watermark, along lower left edge: [very small fragment]
Provenance
(William H. Robinson);1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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William Blake, And Like a Corpse Fell to the Ground, 1826, engraving printed in black ink on chine collé. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, 42.120.
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