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- Title:
Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus
- Former Title(s):
Christ healing the leper
- Additional Title(s):
Christ Giving Sight to the Blind Man
- Date:
- 1799 to 1800
- Medium:
- Tempera with pen and black ink on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 38.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.90
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- apostles | blind | Christianity | clouds | faith | halo | healing | hills | men | miracle | mountains | New Testament | religious and mythological subject | stones | sunlight
- 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:7222
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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 - 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]
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Anthony Blunt, Blake's 'Ancient of Days', the symbolism of the compasses , Journal of the Warburg Institute, vol. 2, London, 1938, facing p. 60, pl. 10c, AS122 L8515 2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of the works of William Blake, Spottiswoode & Co., London, 1876, p. 38, no. 123, NJ18 B57 B862 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of the collection of pictures by old masters : 10 April 1905, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, April 10, 1905, p. 6, Lot 21, Fiche B51 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 5, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Geoffrey Keynes, Tempera paintings of William Blake, A critical catalogue , Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951, p. 28, no. 28, NJ18 B57 K495 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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, p. 200 (v.1), no. 383, pl. 15, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]