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- Title:
- The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
- Additional Title(s):
- The Wise and Foolish Virgins
- Date:
- ca. 1825
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches (42.2 x 35.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in gold ink, lower right: "W Blake inv"
Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left, encircled: "5[...]"; in graphite, verso, lower left: "BLAKE, WiLLiAM : WiSE + FOOLiSH ViRGiNS | 62/5/22/2"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6102
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- angels | clouds | houses | judgments | night | oil lamps | parable | religious and mythological subject | robes | spires | trumpets | virgins | wisdom | women
- Associated People:
- Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7242
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The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
William Blake (Tokyo) (The National Museum of Western Art, 1990-09-18 - 1990-11-25) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
William Blake [Butlin] (Whitworth Art Gallery, 1978-06-10 - 1978-07-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
William Blake [Butlin] (Tate Britain, 1978-03-08 - 1978-05-21) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
English Drawings and Watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, Plate is Frontpiece, cat. no. 1, Pl. 1, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Brian Allen, The Sport of Collecting : Paul Mellon and British Art, Apollo, v.165,no.542, April 2007, pp. 34, 36, fig. 3, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, pp. 7, 30, cat. no. 4, Pl. 4, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon Shelf [YCBA]
Naomi Billingsley, The visionary art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination, I.B. Tauris, London ; New York, plate 9, NJ18.B57 B55 2018 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
David Bindman, William Blake : His art and times, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, pp. 172-73, no. 113, NJ18 .B57 B524 (LC)+ Oversize YCBA [ORBIS]
Martin Butlin, William Blake, Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 91, no. 173, NJ18 .B57 B87 (LC)+ Oversize YCBA [ORBIS]
English Drawings and Watercolours from the Mellon Collection, The Times (London), issue no. 56195, December 15, 1964, p. 6, Available online: The Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfilm: Film An T482 (SML) [ORBIS]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 5, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Matthew Hargraves, William Blake and Paul Mellon : the life of the mind, Open Knowledge Foundation, New York, 2014, [ pp. 3, 4 ], fig. 3, V 2557 Printed from URL: http://openglam.org/2014/10/07/william-blake-and-paul-mellon-the-life-of-the-mind [ORBIS]
National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo), Uiriamu bureiku ten : William Blake, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., Tokyo, 1990, pp. 171, 270, no. 49, NJ18 .B57 U3 1990 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Patrick Noon, The human form divine : William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997, pp. 69, 82, NJ18 .B57 N66 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 202, no. 387, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The Yale Center for British Art, An Anniversary Celebration of Paul Mellon's Great Legacy , Apollo, April 2007, fig. 3, pp. 34, 36, N5220 M552 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Appeared as April 2007 issue of Apollo;; all of the articles may also be found in bound Apollo Volume [N1 A54 165:2 +] [YCBA]
Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 76-77, no. 31, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, Cat. no. 1, Frontpiece, NC228 Y34 (YCBA) [YCBA]