Private collection, USA
The meeting of a family in heaven
- 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).