William Blake
The Angel Appearing to Zacharias
26.7 x 38.1 cmPen and black ink, tempera, and glue size on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of William Church Osborn
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 88
Provenance
Thomas Butts, London (until d. 1845)
Thomas Butts Jr., London (1845—d. 1862; his estate, 1862-63)
Captain Frederick John Butts (1863-1903)
his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 24, 1903, no. 10, to Carfax
with Carfax, London, from 1903
Mary Hoadley Dodge, London and Wick Hall, Hove, Sussex (by 1906—after 1927)
by descent to Mr. and Mrs. William Church (Alice Dodge) Osborn (by 1929—her d. 1937)
William Church Osborn (1937—d. 1951)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of William Church Osborn, 1951
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