Visionary heads (William Blake)

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Visionary heads (in the order of Martin Butlin Catalogue)

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  A Head of a Young Woman, Butlin #686 recto, c 1820 183x188mm – McGill University Library, Montreal
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  Harold killed at the Battle of Hastings, Butlin #692 76, [Small BVS, p. 76; Varley A15] c. 1819; 155 x 205 mm, Collection of Robert N. Essick.
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  Ghost of a flea, head in profile, Butlin #692 98, Small BVS, p. 98, c. 1819; Pencil on paper, 189 x 153 mm - Tate Britain, London
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  Ghost of a flea, head in profile, Butlin #692 98, Small BVS, p. 98, c. 1819; Pencil on paper, 189 x 153 mm - Tate Britain, London
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  Edward VI? with a spiky collar, Butlin #692 108,[Small BVS, p. 108] c 1819; 205 x 157, M. D. E. Clayton-Stamm Collection, England
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  Satan, Butlin #693 c 1819-20 232x311mm - Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
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  The Egyptian Taskmaster & Saul, Butlin #696 1819-20 120x90mm – Private collection, Yorkshire
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  David, Butlin #698 c 1819-20 254x180mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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  Uriah the Husband of Bathsheba and Bathsheba, Butlin #699, c. 1820; 205 x 330 mm. watermark "JH 1818"; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal.
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  Solomon, Butlin #701 c 1819-20 255x211mm – Edwin Wolf 2nd, Philadelphia
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  Solomon, counterproof, Butlin #702 c 1819-20 255x211mm - Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.jpg
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  Head of Job, Butlin #703, c. 1823; 260 x 200 mm. watermark "SMITH & ALLNUTT 1815"; Sir Geoffrey Keynes Collection
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  Nebuchadnezzar Coin, Butlin #704 (tracing by Linnell) 45x50mm G Ingli James Cardiff
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  Joseph and Mary & the room They were seen in, Butlin #705; Varley A30, B38, c. 1820; 200 x 315 mm. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal.
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  Corinna Grecian Poetess, the Rival of Pindar, Butlin #708 c. 1820; 262 x 417 mm University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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  Corinna, Butlin #708, Detail 1, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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  Corinna, Butlin #708, Detail 1, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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  William Blake - A Female Head, Butlin #709, c 1819-20, 240x385mm – Untraced since 1949
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  Pindar and Lais the Courtesan, Butlin #711, c 1820, 267x419mm - Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. Lancashire
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  Lais of Corinth, Butlin #712 recto c 1820, 150x140mm - Private Collection, Great Britain
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  File:William Blake - Socrates, Butlin #713 c 1819-20 313x201mm - Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California
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  Socrates, Butlin #714 c 1820 125x185mm - Yale Center for British Art
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  Socrates, Butlin #714 c 1820 125x185mm - Yale Center for British Art
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  Socrates, Butlin #714 c 1820 125x185mm - Yale Center for British Art
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  Classic Head of a Young Faun, 715 c 1819-20, 227x189mm – Private Collection, Great Britain
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  Cassibelane, Butlin #716 c 1819-20 233x176mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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  Boadicea, Butlin #717 c 1819-20 205x160mm - Joseph Holland - Los Angeles, California
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  Caractacus, Butlin #719, c. 1819; Small BVS, p. 36; Varley (lists) A1, B20, 195 x 150 mm (Sir Geoffrey Keynes Collection)
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  Mahomet, Butlin #720 c 1819 311x107mm - Santa Barbara
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  Canute, Butlin #721 c 1819-20 258x203mm -National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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  An Anglo-Norman King, Butlin #724 c 1819-20 281x213mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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  Empress Maud, Butlin #725 c 1819-20 250x182mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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  "Queen Eleanor" Butlin #726; Varley A9, B23, c. 1820; 195 x 155 mm; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal.
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  The Assassin lying dead at the feet of Edward I & Saladin, Butlin #728c. 1820;
  223 x 140 mm; watermark "SMITH & ALLNUTT 1815"; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal.
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  Richard Coer de Lion, Butlin #729 c 1819 178x163mm - Joseph Holland - Los Angeles, California
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  Faulconberg the Bastard, Butlin #730 c 1819-20 249x183mm - Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California
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  King John, Butlin #731 c 1819-20 248x170mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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  King John - Counterproof - Butlin #732 240x190mm Private - Stainford, Conneticut
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  William Wallace & Edward Ist, Butlin #734, c. 1819; 198 x 269 mm, Collection of Robert N. Essick
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  Visionary Head of Edward III? Butlin #735, c. 1819 240 x 204 mm, watermark "J GREEN 1819" black chalk & pencil, Collection of W. W. Appleton
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  Edward III, 736 c 1819-20, 180x140mm – Private Collection (on sale in 2013)
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  Edward III, 736 c 1819-20, 180x140mm – Private Collection (on sale in 2013)
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  Wat Tyler, Butlin #737, c1819, 242x103mm - Edwin Wolf 2nd, Philadelphia
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  Wat Tyler by Wm Blake, from his spectre (Large BVS, p. 73? cut out; Butlin #737 or 738-740 replicas) c. 1819; 254 x 203 mm, graphite, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City, Gift of Charles Ryskamp, 1999
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  Wat Tyler, Butlin #737 (or 738-740 replicas)
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  Wat Tyler’s Daughter, Butlin #741 c 1819-20 253x188mm – National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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  The Great Earl of Warwick Brother to Edward the 4th Drawn by Wm Blake, not in Butlin (Large BVS, p. 38.) c. 1819;
  254 x 203 mm. Collection of Allan Parker. Christie's Images Ltd 2001
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  Colonel Blood who attempted to steal the Crown, not in Butlin (Large BVS, p. 39.) c. 1819; 254 x 203 mm. Collection of Allan Parker. Christie's Images Ltd 2001
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  Owen Glendower, not in Butlin (Large BVS, p. 59, also p. 77, Butlin 743-744) c. 1819; 254 x 203 mm. Collection of Allan Parker. Christie's Images Ltd 2001
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  Hotspur, Butlin #745 c 1819-20 322x178mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California.jpg
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  Gray the Poet & Friar Bacon, Butlin #746, c. 1820, 197 x 162 mm, Pembroke College, Cambridge, England
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  Old Tom Parr when Young, Butlin #748 c. 1820; 300 x 185 mm watermark "1810"; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal.
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  Spirit of Voltaire by Blake, Butlin #749, c. 1820;
  230 x 152 mm Dr John Lipscomb, Canterbury, England
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  The Ghost of a Flea, Butlin 750, 1819-20 Tempera & gold on mahogany 2.4 × 162 mm, held in the Tate Gallery, London.
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  Cancer, Butlin #751, Small BVS, page c, c 1820; 165× 114 mm. (Mr Leonard Baskin, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
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  Cancer, Butlin #751, Small BVS, page c, c 1820; 165 × 114 mm. (Mr Leonard Baskin, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
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  Cancer, Butlin #751, Small BVS, page c, c 1820; 165 × 114 mm. (Mr Leonard Baskin, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
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  engraving of "Nebuchadnezzar Coin as Seen in a Vision by Mr. Blake" (#709) and "Head of Cancer" (#751)
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  The Man who Built the Pyramids, Butlin #752 [Small BVS, p. 102;] 18 October 1819; copy by Linnell. 300 x 215 mm (Tate Britain
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  "Imagination of A man who Mr Blake has recd instruct[ion] in Painting &c from", counterproof c. 1819;
  295 x 235 mm Butlin #754 Tate Britain
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  The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams, Butlin #755, c. 1825; 260 x 206 mm; attributed to Linnell, Graphite on paper, Tate Britain
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  Weish Bard, Job or Moses, Butlin #757 c 1819-20 246x188mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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  A Visionary Head Butlin #759, c. 1819-20; 191 x 143 mm; Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper; (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)
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  The Lute Player, Butlin #760 recto, c1819-20, 195x120mm - Untraced since 1959
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  Five Visionary Heads of Women. Butlin #765, c. 1819-20; 270 x 324 mm; Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper; ( Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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  9 Grotesque or Demoniac Heads, Butlin #767 recto c 1819-20 183 × 188 mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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  A Head, Butlin #767 verso c 1819-20 183x188mm - F Bailey Vanderhoef Jr - Ojai California
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  A seated nude woman by a window, Butlin 768 recto, c1820-25, 181x227mm - British Museum
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  A Seated Nude Woman by a Window, Butlin #768 recto, c1820-25, 181x227mm - British Museum

Loose Visionary Heads

The Ghost of a Flea (tempera)

There are more than 50 loose visionary heads including:

• Satan with a plumed helmet (Butlin #693)
• Satan as a fiend at Blake's grated window (#694)
• Lot (#695)
• "The Egyptian Task master who was killed & Buried by Moses" and "Saul King of Israel under the influence of the Evil Spirit" (#696)
• Saul (#697)
• David (#698)
• Uriah and Bathsheba (#699)
• Solomon (#700)
• Job (#703)
• Nebuchadnezzar Coin as Seen in a Vision by Mr. Blake (#704)
• Joseph and Mary & the room They were seen in (#705)
• Head of Achilles (#707)
• Lais and a foot and ankle (#712)
• Socrates (#713 & #714)
• A young faun (#715)
• Boadicea? (#718)
• Caractacus, counterproof (#719)
• Muhammad (#720)
• Canute, counterproof (#723)
• Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England and mother of Richard I (#726)
• The Assassin lying dead at the feet of Ed. I & Saladin. (#728)
• Richard Coeur de Lion (#729)
• William Wallace and Edward I (#734)
• King Edward I (#735)
• King Edward III (#736)
• Gray the Poet and Friar Bacon (#746)
• Henry VIII of England? as a youth (#747)
• Old Tom Parr when Young (#748)
• The spirit of Voltaire by Blake (#749)
• The Ghost of a Flea, tempera (#750)
• The Man who built the Pyramids drawn by Willam Blake, Oct. 18, 1819. (#752)
• The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (#753)
• Imagination of A man who Mr Blake has recd instruct[ion] in Painting &c from, counterproof (#754)
• "The Portrait of a Man who instructed Mr Blake in Painting &c, in his Dreams" and "Imagination of A man who Mr Blake has recd instruct[ion] in Painting &c from", replica (?by Linnell) (#755)
• Visionary Head (#759)
• Five Visionary Heads (Heads of Women) 270x324mm (#765)