For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, Plate 10, "My son! my Son!"
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite lower center: "8. In vainglory hatcht and nurst, | By double Spectres, self-accurst. | My Son! my Son! Thou treatest me | But as I have instructed thee. | Blake's 'Key'."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.6(10)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
leaf | trees | men | ruins | nudes | text | stones | literary theme | beard | religious and mythological subject | spear