William BlakeSpojené království, 1757–1827Pity
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Kde je teď „Pity“? Sbírka: Tate Gallery, Westminster. Zda je dnes vystaveno, nevíme.
Westminster, Spojené království
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O obrazu
Pity (c. 1795) is a colour print on paper, finished in ink and watercolour, by the English artist and poet William Blake, one of the group known as the "Large Colour Prints". Along with his other works of this period, it was influenced by the Bible, Milton, and Shakespeare. The work is unusual, as it is a literal illustration of a double simile from Macbeth, found in the lines:
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air.
- Macbeth (1.7.21–23)
Číst dál
Like other members of the group, it is a monotype produced by printing from a matrix consisting of paint on gessoed millboard, with each impression then finished by hand. Blake could obtain up to three impressions from a single painting by this unusual means. Three such impressions survive of Pity. A fourth, in the British Museum, was an early trial of the design from a different matrix, as it is smaller than the others.
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- Inventární číslo
- N05062
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- Obrázek: Tate Gallery — William Blake · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
