Collection: Prints and Drawings / Exhibition History: William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) / Image Use: Free to Use

1. The Crescent Moon

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and sepia ink and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 inches (18.1 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Prison Scene

Creator:: George Romney, 1734–1802
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 18 1/4 inches (28.3 x 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, B.A. 1938

3. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 40, "The Angel" (Bentley 41)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Plate 2 (page 1): 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Plate 8 (page 13): 'The present moment terminates our sight'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Plate 11 (page 17): 'NIGHT the SECOND/ ON/ TIME,/DEATH/ AND FRIENDSHIP'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts (and title page)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Spine: 16 3/4in. (42.5cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Plate 17 (page 27): 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep"

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Plate 15 (page 25): 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Plate 18 (page 31): ''Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Plate 19 (page 33): 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Plate 20 (page 35): 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Plate 43 (page 95): 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Plate 31 (page 65): [Night the Fourth] 'THE/ CHRISTIAN/ TRIUMPH'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Plate 4 (page 7): 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tounge'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Plate 6 (page 10): 'Disease invades the chastest temperence'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Plate 3 (page 4): 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Plate 7 (page 12): 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Plate 9 (page 15):' The longest night though longer far, would fail'

Creator:: Engravings by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Plate 12 (page 19): 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Plate 13 (page 23): 'We censure nature for a span too short'

Creator:: Engravings by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. Plate 21 (page 37): 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. Plate 22 (page 40): ' Angels should paint it, angels ever there'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Plate 23 (page 41): 'One radiant MARK; the Death bed of the Just'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Plate 24 (page 43): 'NIGHT/ THE/ THIRD,/ NARCISSA'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Plate 25 (page 46): 'Where sense runs savage broke from reason's chain'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Plate 28 (page 55): 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Plate 26 (page 49): 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Plate 27 (page 54): 'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 7, "As the stars are apart from the earth . . . ." (Bentley 6)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 10, "7. From the caverns of his jointed spine . . . ." (Bentley 11)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. What is Man!, Frontispiece; Plate 1

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. For Children. The Gates of Paradise, Title Page; Plate 2

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. Earth; Plate 5

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Air; Plate 6

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. At Length for Hatching Ripe He Breaks the Shell; Plate 8

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Alas!; Plate 9

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. My Son! My Son!; Plate 10

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Aged Ignorance; Plate 13

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. I Have Said to the Worm, Thou Art My Mother & My Sister; Plate 18

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Plate 40 (page 90): 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Plate 41 (page 92): 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Water; Plate 4

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. I Want! I Want!; Plate 11

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. Help! Help!; Plate 12

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

46. Does Thy God O Priest Take such Vengeance as This?; Plate 14

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

47. Fear & Hope Are -- Vision; Plate 15

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

48. The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening; Plate 16

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. Death's Door; Plate 17

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

50. Plate 32 (page 70): 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

51. Plate 34 (page 73): 'Draw the dire steel? -- ah no!-- the dreadful blessing'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

52. Plate 35 (page 75): 'The Sun beheld it -- No, the shocking Scene Drove back his chariot'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

53. Plate 30 (page 63): 'This KING OF TERRORS is the PRINCE OF PEACE'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

54. Plate 36 (page 80): 'The thunder if in that the ALMIGHTY dwells'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

55. I Found Him Beneath a Tree; Plate 3

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

56. Plate 29 (page 57): 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

57. Plate 42 (page 93): 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight'

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

58. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, "The First Book of Urizen." (Bentley 1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching printed in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

59. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 11, "Two nostrils bent down to the deep . . . ." (Bentley 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

60. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 13, "Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided . . . " (Bentley 15)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

61. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 14 (Bentley 14)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

62. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 18 (Bentley 21)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

63. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 20, "Of life forsaken mountains . . . ." (Bentley 23)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

64. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 21 (Bentley 27)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

65. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 23: "The Ox in the slaughter house moans . . . ." (Bentley 25)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

66. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 25, "They lived a period of years . . . ." (Bentley 28)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

67. Fire; Plate 7

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

68. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 35, "Earth's Answer" (Bentley 31)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

69. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 46, "The Human Abstract" (Bentley 47)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 48, "The Fly" (Bentley 40)

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Pl. 7: The Circle of Traitors: Dante Striking Against Bocca degli Abati ['...'Wherefore dost bruise me?' weeping he/ exclaim'd.' Hell; Canto xxxii. line 79.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 7/16 × 21 1/4 inches (39.2 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 109, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. pl. 1: The Circle of the Lustful [' ...and like a corpse fell to the ground' Hell; Canto v. line 137.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 21 7/16 inches (37.5 × 54.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Jerusalem, Plate 2, Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

75. Jerusalem, Plate 25, "And there was heard...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

76. Jerusalem, Plate 53, "Jerusalem / Chap. 3"

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (34.3 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

77. Jerusalem, Plate 6, "His Spectre driv'n...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

78. Jerusalem, Plate 84, "Highgates heights & Hampstead...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

79. Jerusalem, Plate 97, "Awake! Awake Jerusalem...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

80. Jerusalem, Plate 100

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (26.4 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

81. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 29, "A Long Story."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

82. Jerusalem, Plate 1, Frontispiece

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

83. Jerusalem, Plate 11, "To labours mighty...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

84. Jerusalem, Plate 35, "Then the Divine hand...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

85. Jerusalem, Plate 51

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in black ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (26.4 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

86. Jerusalem, Plate 70, "And this the form of mighty Hand...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

87. Jerusalem, Plate 76

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

88. Jerusalem, Plate 99, "All Human Forms identified...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

89. Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1810 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 x 37 5/8in. (34.9 x 95.6cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

90. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 11, "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 3, "Ode on the Spring."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

92. Pl. 3: Baffled Devils Fighting [' ... so turn'd/ His talons on his comrade.' Hell; Canto xxii. line 135]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 11/16 × 21 1/4 inches (37.3 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

93. Pl. 6: The Pit of Disease ['...Then two I mark'd that sat Propp'd 'gainst each other,' Hell; Canto xxix. line 71.]

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1827
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove India proof paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 7/8 × 21 1/4 inches (37.8 × 54 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

94. Jerusalem, Plate 26, "Such Visions Have...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (26.4 x 34.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

95. Jerusalem, Plate 27, "To the Jews...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

96. Jerusalem, Plate 28, "Jerusalem / Chap. 2...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

97. Jerusalem, Plate 32, "Leaning against the pillars...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

98. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 17, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

99. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 31, "A Long Story."

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

100. There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 11, "II Reason or the ratio . . . . " (Bentley b4)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches (13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Crescent Moon

2. Prison Scene

3. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 40, "The Angel" (Bentley 41)

4. Plate 2 (page 1): 'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe'

5. Plate 8 (page 13): 'The present moment terminates our sight'

6. Plate 11 (page 17): 'NIGHT the SECOND/ ON/ TIME,/DEATH/ AND FRIENDSHIP'

7. The Complaint and the Consolation; or Night Thoughts (and title page)

8. Plate 17 (page 27): 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep"

9. Plate 15 (page 25): 'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen'

10. Plate 18 (page 31): ''Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours'

11. Plate 19 (page 33): 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee'

12. Plate 20 (page 35): 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain'

13. Plate 43 (page 95): 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame'

14. Plate 31 (page 65): [Night the Fourth] 'THE/ CHRISTIAN/ TRIUMPH'

15. Plate 4 (page 7): 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tounge'

16. Plate 6 (page 10): 'Disease invades the chastest temperence'

17. Plate 3 (page 4): 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod'

18. Plate 7 (page 12): 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards'

19. Plate 9 (page 15):' The longest night though longer far, would fail'

20. Plate 12 (page 19): 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead'

21. Plate 13 (page 23): 'We censure nature for a span too short'

22. Plate 21 (page 37): 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love'

23. Plate 22 (page 40): ' Angels should paint it, angels ever there'

24. Plate 23 (page 41): 'One radiant MARK; the Death bed of the Just'

25. Plate 24 (page 43): 'NIGHT/ THE/ THIRD,/ NARCISSA'

26. Plate 25 (page 46): 'Where sense runs savage broke from reason's chain'

27. Plate 28 (page 55): 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades'

28. Plate 26 (page 49): 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam'

29. Plate 27 (page 54): 'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale'

30. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 7, "As the stars are apart from the earth . . . ." (Bentley 6)

31. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 10, "7. From the caverns of his jointed spine . . . ." (Bentley 11)

32. What is Man!, Frontispiece; Plate 1

33. For Children. The Gates of Paradise, Title Page; Plate 2

34. Earth; Plate 5

35. Air; Plate 6

36. At Length for Hatching Ripe He Breaks the Shell; Plate 8

37. Alas!; Plate 9

38. My Son! My Son!; Plate 10

39. Aged Ignorance; Plate 13

40. I Have Said to the Worm, Thou Art My Mother & My Sister; Plate 18

41. Plate 40 (page 90): 'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul'

42. Plate 41 (page 92): 'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so'

43. Water; Plate 4

44. I Want! I Want!; Plate 11

45. Help! Help!; Plate 12

46. Does Thy God O Priest Take such Vengeance as This?; Plate 14

47. Fear & Hope Are -- Vision; Plate 15

48. The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening; Plate 16

49. Death's Door; Plate 17

50. Plate 32 (page 70): 'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all'

51. Plate 34 (page 73): 'Draw the dire steel? -- ah no!-- the dreadful blessing'

52. Plate 35 (page 75): 'The Sun beheld it -- No, the shocking Scene Drove back his chariot'

53. Plate 30 (page 63): 'This KING OF TERRORS is the PRINCE OF PEACE'

54. Plate 36 (page 80): 'The thunder if in that the ALMIGHTY dwells'

55. I Found Him Beneath a Tree; Plate 3

56. Plate 29 (page 57): 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl'

57. Plate 42 (page 93): 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight'

58. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 1, "The First Book of Urizen." (Bentley 1)

59. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 11, "Two nostrils bent down to the deep . . . ." (Bentley 13)

60. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 13, "Thus the Eternal Prophet was divided . . . " (Bentley 15)

61. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 14 (Bentley 14)

62. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 18 (Bentley 21)

63. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 20, "Of life forsaken mountains . . . ." (Bentley 23)

64. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 21 (Bentley 27)

65. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 23: "The Ox in the slaughter house moans . . . ." (Bentley 25)

66. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 25, "They lived a period of years . . . ." (Bentley 28)

67. Fire; Plate 7

68. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 35, "Earth's Answer" (Bentley 31)

69. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 46, "The Human Abstract" (Bentley 47)

70. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 48, "The Fly" (Bentley 40)

71. Pl. 7: The Circle of Traitors: Dante Striking Against Bocca degli Abati ['...'Wherefore dost bruise me?' weeping he/ exclaim'd.' Hell; Canto xxxii. line 79.]

72. The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 109, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard."

73. pl. 1: The Circle of the Lustful [' ...and like a corpse fell to the ground' Hell; Canto v. line 137.]