- Title:
- The Three Fatal Sisters (Design 67)
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: A Muse (Design 68)
The Fatal Sisters- Part Of:
- Date:
- between 1797 and 1798
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink upper right: "1"; on verso in black ink upper left: "2"
Lettered on inlaid page: "THE | FATAL SISTERS. | AN ODE. | (From the NORSE TONGUE.) | To be found in the ORCADES of THERMODUS | TORFAEUS; HAFNIAE, 1697, Folio; and | also in BARTHOLINUS. | VITT ER ORPIT FYRIR VALFALLI, &C. | H"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "ADVERTISEMENT. | The author once had thoughts (in concert | with a friend) of giving A History of English | Poetry: In the Introduction to it he meant to | have produced some specimens of the style | that reigned in ancient times among the neigh- | bouring nations, or those who had subdued | the greater part of this island, and were our | progenitors: the following three imitations | made a part of them. He afterwards drop- | ped his design; especially after he had heard, | that it was already in the hands of a person | well qualified to do it justice, both by his | taste, and his researches into antiquity."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.11(34)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- angel | armor | dresses | feathers | gloves | gown | helmets | joust | knights | literary theme | religious and mythological subject | scales | sky | soldiers | spear | text | wings | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3658
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Colin Cross, Blake revealed, William Blake : Discovery of a Masterwork , Observer, vol. 12, November 21, 1971, V 1245 Detached from Observer colour magazine [ORBIS]
Arnold Fawcus, Unknown Watercolours by William Blake, Illustrated London News, vol. 259, No. 6881, December 25, 1971, pp. 45-46, 49-51, Illustrated London News Historical Archive [ORBIS]