The First Book of Urizen, Plate 8, "In Living Creations Appear'd...." (Bentley 5)
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, 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: "8"; in red ink upper right: "[ . . . ]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.5(8)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
book | beard | men | leaf | flames | religious and mythological subject | literary theme | text | vines | 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)
Publications:
William Blake, Libros profe´ticos, vol. 1, Atalanta, Vilau¨r, Spain, 2013, p. 288, PR4142 .S35 2013He´le`ne Pharabod-Ibata, The Challenge of the Sublime, from Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art, Manchester University Press, Manchester, p. 250, fig. 28, NX650.S92 P43 2018 (LC) (YCBA)