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The Christ Child Asleep on the Cross

Tempera Painting
1799-1800 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Blake, William (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Great Britain (painting (image-making))

Tempera painting

Object details

Categories
Paintings
Christianity
Object type
Tempera painting
Titles
  • The Christ Child Asleep on the Cross
  • Our Lady Adoring the Infant Jesus Asleep on the Cross
Materials and techniques
Tempera on canvas
Tempera
Canvas
Painting
Brief description
Tempera painting entitled 'The Christ Child Asleep on the Cross' by William Blake. Great Britain, 1799-1800.
Physical description
Tempera painting
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 27cm
  • Estimate width: 38.7cm
  • Frame height: 395mm
  • Frame width: 510mm
  • Frame depth: 60mm
Dimensions taken from departmental object file
Style
British School
Object history
Purchased, 1953
Subject depicted
Christ Child
Bibliographic references
  • Butlin, Martin. William Blake., London : Tate Gallery, 1978 cat. no. 137
  • Butlin, Martin. The paintings and drawings of William Blake. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven; London, 1981, p. 328, cat. no. 411, repr.pl.496.
  • W. M. Rossetti, "Annotated Catalogue" in A. Gilchrist Life of William Blake, 2 vols, 1863, II, p.230, no.187.
  • W. M. Rossetti, "Annotated Catalogue" in A. Gilchrist Life of William Blake, 2 vols, 1880 (enlarged edition), II, p.244, no.213.
  • G.keynes, William Blake's Illustrations to the Bible, 1957, p.30, no.101, repr.
  • Blunt, A. The Art of William Blake, 1959, p.66, repr. pl.35a
  • Bindman, D., Blake as an Artist 1977, pp.123, 127, 129.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
  • Exhibition of the works of William Blake, London : Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1876 148
  • A catalogue of frescoes, prints, & drawings by William Blake, London : Carfax & Co., Ltd., 1906 no. 13
  • Keynes, Geoffrey, The Tempera Paintings of William Blake : a critical catalogue, London : Arts Council of Great Britain, 1951 no.18
  • Hofmann, Werner. William Blake : 1757-1827, München : Prestel, 1975 no. 137
  • Kauffmann, C.M., The Bible in British Art : 10th to 20th Centuries. London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1977 no. 77
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
P.27-1953

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Record createdMarch 12, 2007
Record URL
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