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Christ Accepting the Office of Redeemer (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")

William Blake (English, 1757–1827)
1808

Medium/Technique Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 49.6 × 39.3 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number90.94
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsWatercolors

Catalogue Raisonné Butlin 536 [1]
Description"Father thy word is passed" Paradise Lost, III, 227
InscriptionsSigned lower right: W Blake 1808
ProvenanceThomas Butts (1757-1845), England; Thomas Butts, Jr., sold 29 June 1853, Foster's (in 139 with No. 536 4, 9, 11, and 12) £17.66; purchased by J.C. Strange; B. Quaritch, Boston [offered catalogue 350 10 August 1883, May 1887, etc. (in 13842 with 32 others; see No. 84) £1,200]; purchased 29 April, 1890