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The Creation of Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost")

William Blake (English, 1757–1827)
1808

Medium/Technique Pen and watercolor on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 50.3 × 40 cm (19 13/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number90.95
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsWatercolors

Catalogue Raisonné Butlin 536 [6]
DescriptionMilton's Paradise Lost VIII, 470
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 bt. J.C. Strange; Quartich, offered catalogue 350 10 August 1883, May 1887, etc. (in 13842 with 32 others; see No. 84) £1,200, sold to MFA, Boston