Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 × 16 15/16 inches (50.8 × 43 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "IX"; in black ink, lower right: "Matthew XXVIIc 66v" in graphite, lower center: "Sealing the Stone & setting a Watch."; in black chalk, lower left: "Blake's own mount"; inscribed on back in graphite, upper center: "IX"; in graphite center: "No 5"; in graphite, lower center: "No - 161 - Page 228"; in graphite, lower left, encircled: "2"; in graphite, lower right: "(55.9.5)"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901 Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1979.12.703
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
religious and mythological subject | ladder | spear | pike | tomb | trowel | cement | men | soldier | stone | masonry | mortar | armor | sepulcher | joust
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)