English: Hecate, or The Night of Enitharmon's Joy, Butlin 316
Title: Hecate, or The Night of Enitharmon's Joy
Origination: William Blake: inventor, delineator, printer, colorist
Composition Date: 1795
Print Date: 1795
Note: The characteristics of the color printing indicate that this impression is the first one printed in 1795. The second impression in that printing session is Hecate, or The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy in the Huntington Library and Art Gallery (Butlin 318); the third impression of the design is in the National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh (Butlin 317).
Number of Objects: 1
Object Size: 43.9 x 58.1 cm.
Number of Leaves: 1
Leaf Size: 54.5 x 77.0 cm.
Medium: planographic color printing with water color and pen and ink additions to the impression
Printing Style: planographic
Support: wove paper
Watermark: 1794 JWhatman
Penned Numbers: none
Frame Lines: none
Binding: loose
Stab Holes: none
Provenance
Name: Tate Collection
Date: 1939
Dealer: none
Price: gift
Note: Acquired by Thomas Butts from Blake, possibly c. 1805; Thomas Butts, Jr., apparently by inheritance in 1845; Frederick J. Butts, apparently by inheritance in 1862; his widow, c. 1905, by inheritance; sold 1906 through Carfax and Co., London, to W. Graham Robertson; given 1939 by Robertson to the Tate Gallery (now Tate Collection).
Present Location
Tate Collection
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
United Kingdom