A Little Girl Lost

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"A Little Girl Lost" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794.

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LINK TO RELEVANT ENGRAVING: http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=songsie.r.illbk.53&java=yes

DETAILS OF ENGRAVING:
Title: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Origination: William Blake: author, inventor, delineator, etcher, printer, colorist
Origination: Catherine Blake: printer, colorist
Publisher: William Blake Note: Blake's name is given as the "printer" on the title pages to Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, but he is also the "publisher." Place of Publication: London Note: The place of publication is not printed in the work, but Blake lived in London, or its suburb Lambeth, during the composition, etching, printing, and coloring of this copy.
Date: 1789, 1794
Note: The 1789 imprint appears on the title page to Songs of Innocence, the 1794 imprint on the title page to Songs of Experience. There is no date on the general, combined title page. Composition Date: 1789, 1794
Note: 1789 (plates 2-29, 36-38 as arranged in this copy); 1794 (plates 1, 30-35, 39-54 as arranged in this copy) Print Date: c. 1795, c. 1808 Note: Plates 2-43, 45-51, 53-54 as arranged in this copy were printed c. 1795 (possibly a later date for plates 1 and 52). Plate 44 as arranged in this copy was printed c. 1808, as indicated by the watermark--see below. Number of Objects: 54 Object Order: 1-21, 53, 22-25, 54, 26-49, 52, 51, 50 Note: Plates 1 and 52 may have been added to this copy after its original printing. Plate 42, showing an 1808 watermark, must have been inserted in that year or later. Bentley plate numbers are used unless otherwise stated.
Object Size: Ranging between 12.4 x 7.9 cm. and 10.9 x 6.3 cm.
Number of Leaves: 54 Leaf Size: 30.0 x 21.3 cm. Note: This copy was probably printed as part of Blake's large-paper "edition" of his illuminated books. If so, then the original sheet size was c. 38 x 27 cm.
Medium: Relief and white-line etching with hand coloring Note: Some of the plates in Songs of Experience were probably touched up after their initial coloring. This second layer of coloring could have been added at any time prior to the sale of the book to Linnell (see provenance, below) in 1819.
Printing Style: relief Ink Color: Gray-black (plates 2-29 as arranged in this copy); dark olive (plates 30-43, 45-51, 53-54 as arranged in this copy); deep black (plates 1, 44, 52 as arranged in this copy) Support: wove paper Watermark: I Taylor; J Whatman/1808 Note: The Taylor watermark appears on the leaves bearing plates 12, 17, 28, and 43 as arranged in this copy. The Whatman watermark appears on plate 44 as arranged in this copy.
Etched Numbers: none Penned Numbers: Plates 2-29 as arranged in this copy numbered 1-28; plates 30-54 as arranged in this copy numbered 1-25; plates 30-54 as arranged in this copy also numbered 29-53. Note: The first sequence of numbers, appearing upper right between the second and third framing lines, enumerates Innocence and Experience separately. The second sequence for Experience, appearing upper right outside the framing lines, unites the two sections into a single sequence (and hence a single work) and may have been added when the framing lines were added as late as 1819, just before the sale of the book to Linnell--see provenance, below. Frame Lines: 4 (plates 1, 3-54 as arranged in this copy); 5 (plate 2 as arranged in this copy). Note: With the exception of plate 1, the innermost framing line is contiguous with the border of the plate. In a few cases--e.g., plate 6 as arranged in this copy, top and upper right side--the inner framing lines extends outside the border of the plate on one side or a part of a side. The framing lines were probably added at a later date than the printing and first coloring of most of the plates (1795), perhaps as late as 1819, just before the sale of the book to Linnell--see provenance below.
Binding: full vellum Note: The volume was bound, probably c. 1824, to match other copies of Blake's illuminated books owned by Linnell. Stab Holes: Songs of Innocence, plates 1-29 as arranged in this copy, originally stabbed separately from Songs of Experience, plates 30-54 as arranged in this copy.
Provenance

Name: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Date: 1950 Dealer: none Price: bequest
Note: Retained by Blake from 1795, when most of the plates were printed, to 1819; sold by Blake to John Linnell, 27 Aug. 1819 (£1.19s.6d.); given by John Linnell to his son William Linnell, 28 April 1863; by bequest to William Linnell's daughter, Mrs. T. H. Riches, in 1906; by bequest from T. H. Riches to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1935, which received and accessioned the copy upon the death of Mrs. Riches in 1950.
Present Location

The Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB United Kingdom

Telephone: 44-1223-332900 Fax: 44-1223-332923 URL: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/

Department: Department of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Call Number: P.124--1950 Call Number: 5

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