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Two women and an elderly man look at a dead soldier and other bodies on the ground as a woman searches a battlefield.

At bottom center, the barefoot lifeless body of a soldier wearing chain mail lies on the ground in profile. An elderly man in a robe at right leans on crutches and looks down at the soldier in sorrow, as a woman holding an infant looks at the elderly man. At their feet another woman kneels and cradles the head of another man on the ground. At center, more bodies are strewn upon a breach in a tall stone wall. Beyond it, a woman moves through a field where more bodies can be seen in the distance. A lion and a large bird look on at the figures in the foreground.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.402
People
William Blake, British (London, England 1757 - 1827 London, England)
Title
War
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1805
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297821

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black and gray ink and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 29.8 x 38.5 cm (11 3/4 x 15 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.402
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, "Drawings and Watercolours" [Winthrop collection], Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943), vol. X, no. 2, pp. 53-57, repr. in b/w p. 57
  • Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s, exh. cat., Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, 1979), pp. 138-139
  • Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1981), no. 195, pl. 193
  • Carol C. Gillham and Carolyn H. Wood, European Drawings from the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC, 2001), under cat. no. 50, fig. 2
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), cat. no. 7, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002

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