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

(English, 1757–1827)
1808
Medium/TechniquePen and watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 49.6 × 39.3 cm (19 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession number90.94
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
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