Yale Center for British Art
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British

Title:
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 22, "Stretch'd for a Work of Eternity...." (Bentley 20)
Date:
1794
Medium:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite upper right: "18"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.5(22)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
flames | children | infant | religious and mythological subject | literary theme | nudes | darkness | text | fire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)

William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04)

William Blake (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-03-26 - 2000-07-05)

Publications:
William Blake, Libros profe´ticos, vol. 1, Atalanta, Vilau¨r, Spain, 2013, p. 322, PR4142 .S35 2013

Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3911