Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Pen and watercolour over pencil
  • 5 ⅝ × 3 ⅝ inches · 143 × 92 mm

Collections

  • Charles Augustus Tulk, acquired from the artist, possibly in 1816;
  • Louisa Susanna Ley (née Tulk), daughter of the above (1819-1848);
  • James Peard Ley (1807-1885), husband of the above;
  • James Verchild Ley, son of the above;
  • James Richard Ley, by direct descent, 2010;
  • And by descent, 2012.

Literature

  • Robert N. Essick, ‘Blake in the Marketplace, 2011’, Blake, an Illustrated Quarterly, vol. XLV, no.4, Spring 2012, p.109;
  • ‘William Blake. the Poet & Painter, with his wife, were rescued from destitution by Mr. C. A. Tulk’ (G. E. Bentley, Blake Records, Oxford, 1969, p.34-8).

Private collection, USA