The Art Institute of Chicago
The Day of Judgement
- Pen and grey and black inks and watercolour over traces of pencil
- 10 9/16 × 8 ¾ inches · 270 × 222 mm
- On the original backing sheet
Drawn c.1806-7
Engraved:
by Luigi Schiavonetti in etching and engraving for ‘The Grave, A Poem’, facing page 28,
image 274 x 222 mm, published by Cadell & Davies, 1808.
Collections
- Robert Cromeck, commissioned from the artist, d.1812;
- By inheritance by his widow;
- Thomas Sivright;
- Sivright sale, C.B.Tait, 10 February 1836, lot 1835 (part lot);
- John Stannard d.1882;
- Henry John Stannard, son of the above, d.1920;
- Henry John Sylvester Stannard, son of the above, d.1951;
- By Stannard family descent to 2000;
- Caladonia Books, Glasgow, 2000-2001;
- Paul Williams, Fine Books, Ilkley, acquired from the above in 2001;
- Libby Howie, acquired from the above;
- Subject to an Export Licence stop, March 2005, Permanent licence subsequently granted;
- Howie sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 2 May 2006, lot 9;
- Private collection, acquired after the sale, to 2018