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

1. Virgin and Child

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1825
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera on panel
Dimensions:: 11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. The Horse

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Tempera with pen and black ink on a copper engraving plate
Dimensions:: 4 3/16 x 2 1/2 inches (10.6 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. 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

4. 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

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 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 1, Innocence Frontispiece (Bentley 2)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, 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

40. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 16, "The Little Boy Lost" (Bentley 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, 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

41. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 22, "The Little Girl Found" (Bentley 36)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, 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

42. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 32, Experience Frontispiece (Bentley 28)

Creator:: Print made by 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

43. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 37, "Nurses Song" (Bentley 38)

Creator:: Print made by 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

44. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 38, "Holy Thursday" (Bentley 33)

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

45. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 39, "London" (Bentley 46)

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

46. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 41, "A Poison Tree" (Bentley 49)

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

47. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 42, "The Tyger" (Bentley 42)

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

48. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 8, "But when the morn arose . . . . "

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

49. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 16 (Bentley 17)

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

50. 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

51. 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

52. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 2, Innocence Title Page (Bentley 3)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, 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

53. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 3, "Introduction" (Bentley 4)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, 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

54. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 4, "The Shepherd" (Bentley 5)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black 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

55. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 6, "The Little Black Boy" (Bentley 10)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black 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

56. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 8, "The Ecchoing Green" (Bentley 6)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black 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

57. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 12, "Spring" (Bentley 23)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, 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

58. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 10, "The Chimney Sweeper" (Bentley 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, 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

59. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 24, "The Divine Image" (Bentley 18)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black 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

60. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 30, "Night" (Bentley 20)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black 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

61. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 28, "Infant Joy" (Bentley 25)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, 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

62. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 34, "Introduction" (Bentley 30)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching, with watercolor and pen and black 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

63. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 36, "The Clod & the Pebble" (Bentley 32)

Creator:: Print made by 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

64. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 44, "A Little Girl Lost" (Bentley 51)

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

65. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 45, "The Chimney Sweeper" (Bentley 37)

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

66. 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

67. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 47, "My Pretty Rose Tree" (Bentley 43)

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

68. 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

69. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 1, Frontispiece

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

70. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 2, Title Page

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

71. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 4, "Visions | Enslav'd the Daughters . . . . "

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

72. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 6, "And none but Bromian . . . . "

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

73. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 10, "In happy copulation . . . . "

Creator:: William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

74. Plate 33 (page 72): 'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door'

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

75. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 2, "Preludium to the Book of Urizen" (Bentley 2a)

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

76. 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

77. 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

78. 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

79. 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

80. 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

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. Plate 37 (page 86): 'His hand the good man fastens on the skies'

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

85. Plate 38 (page 87): 'Is lost in love! thou great PHILANTHROPIST'

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

86. 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

87. 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

88. 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

89. There Is No Natural Religion, Plate 1, Frontispiece (Bentley a1)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Color-printed relief etching and watercolor 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

90. America. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Thus Wept the Angel Voice...."

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1793
Materials & Techniques:: Relief etching printed in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

91. 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

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

95. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 17, "They call'd her Pity and fled . . . ." (Bentley 19)

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

96. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 22 (Bentley 24)

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

97. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 24 (Bentley 26)

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

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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

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1. Virgin and Child

2. The Horse

3. The Crescent Moon

4. Prison Scene

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

32. Earth; Plate 5

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

34. Alas!; Plate 9

35. My Son! My Son!; Plate 10

36. Help! Help!; Plate 12

37. Aged Ignorance; Plate 13

38. The Traveller Hasteth in the Evening; Plate 16

39. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 1, Innocence Frontispiece (Bentley 2)

40. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 16, "The Little Boy Lost" (Bentley 13)

41. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 22, "The Little Girl Found" (Bentley 36)

42. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 32, Experience Frontispiece (Bentley 28)

43. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 37, "Nurses Song" (Bentley 38)

44. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 38, "Holy Thursday" (Bentley 33)

45. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 39, "London" (Bentley 46)

46. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 41, "A Poison Tree" (Bentley 49)

47. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 42, "The Tyger" (Bentley 42)

48. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 8, "But when the morn arose . . . . "

49. The First Book of Urizen, Plate 16 (Bentley 17)

50. What is Man!, Frontispiece; Plate 1

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

52. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 2, Innocence Title Page (Bentley 3)

53. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 3, "Introduction" (Bentley 4)

54. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 4, "The Shepherd" (Bentley 5)

55. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 6, "The Little Black Boy" (Bentley 10)

56. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 8, "The Ecchoing Green" (Bentley 6)

57. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 12, "Spring" (Bentley 23)

58. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 10, "The Chimney Sweeper" (Bentley 12)

59. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 24, "The Divine Image" (Bentley 18)

60. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 30, "Night" (Bentley 20)

61. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 28, "Infant Joy" (Bentley 25)

62. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 34, "Introduction" (Bentley 30)

63. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 36, "The Clod & the Pebble" (Bentley 32)

64. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 44, "A Little Girl Lost" (Bentley 51)

65. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 45, "The Chimney Sweeper" (Bentley 37)

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

67. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 47, "My Pretty Rose Tree" (Bentley 43)

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

69. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 1, Frontispiece

70. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 2, Title Page

71. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 4, "Visions | Enslav'd the Daughters . . . . "

72. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 6, "And none but Bromian . . . . "

73. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 10, "In happy copulation . . . . "

74. Plate 33 (page 72): 'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door'