Let Loose the Dogs of War
Framed: 20 x 26 x 1 inches (50.8 x 66.04 x 2.54 cm)
Ruskin Exhibition, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, Spring 1904, no. 383, as The Hell-Hounds.
Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, P. and D. Colnaghi and Co, London, May 12-June 27, 1953, no. 59, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Anatomy and Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 8-June 5, 1960, no. 91, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Imagination and Vision: Prints and Drawings of William Blake, The Art Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, October 17 -November 7, 1971; The University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, MO, November 28-December 18, 1971, no. 1, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
William Blake in the Art of his Time, University of California Art Galleries, Santa Barbara, CA, February 24-March 28, 1976, no. 61, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Master Drawings form the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
William Blake: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, November 4-December 31, 1992, no. 28, Let Loose the Dogs of War and Night Thoughts.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat.
The Naked and the Nude: Representations of the Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 24-April 29, 2006-2007.
Joseph Hogarth (1801-d. ca. 1879), London, by 1843,
John Ruskin (1819-1900), Lancashire, UK, 1843-1880;
Inherited by his cousin, Joan (née Agnew) Severn (1846-1924), Lancashire, UK, 1900-1904;
With The Cotswold Gallery, London, by 1935;
Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), Buckinghamshire, UK, by May 5, 1943;
Purchased at this sale, Important Painting and Drawings, Sotheby and Co., London, May 5, 1943, lot. 2, The Dogs of War, by Douglas Cleverdon;
Douglas Cleverdon (1903-1987), London, by May 5, 1943;
With Colnaghi’s Gallery, London, by 1953;
Peter H. Deitsch (1924-1970), New York, by April 1, 1954;
Purchased from Deitsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1954.
Alexander Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake, 1st ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1863), 1: 55, 2: 241, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Alexander Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake, 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1880), 1: 55, 2: 257, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Catalogue of the Ruskin Exhibition, exh. cat. (Manchester: Manchester City Art Gallery, 1904), 120, The Hell-Hounds.
Alexander Gilchrest and W. Graham Roberston, The Life of William Blake, 3rd ed. (London: John Lane, 1907), 475, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin XXXVI: The Letters of John Ruskin 1827-1869 (London: George Allen, 1909), 32-3, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Catalogue of Drawings by English Arts (London: The Cotswold Gallery, 1935), unpaginated, (repro.), as The Dogs of War.
Important Painting and Drawings (London: Sotheby and Co., 1943), 1, as The Dogs of War.
Exhibition of Old Master Drawings (London: P. and D. Colnaghi and Co, 1953), unpaginated, (repro.), as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
“Anatomy and Art,” The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin 3, no. 1 (1960): 27, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
David V. Erdman, Blake: Prophet against Empire, rev. ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), 398, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Imagination and Vision: Prints and Drawings of William Blake, exh. cat. (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1971), unpaginated, (repro.), as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
William Blake in the Art of his Time, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara, CA: University of California Art Galleries, 1976), 68, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
John E. Grant, William Blake’s Designs for Edward Young’s Night Thoughts, vol. 1 (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1980), 44-6, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 253, (repro.), as Nimrod, Let Loose the Dogs of War and Study for Night Thoughts.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings form the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 48, (repro.), as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Martin Butlin and Robyn Hamlyn, William Blake: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings (New York: Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., 1992), 65, (repro.), Let Loose the Dogs of War and Night Thoughts.
Roger B. Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 197, (repro.), as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Roger B. Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 180-1, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 108, as Let Loose the Dogs of War.
