Blake Gallery

Songs of Experience: Frontispiece, c.1825 (brown ink etching hand-coloured in watercolour

3493163 Songs of Experience: Frontispiece, c.1825 (brown ink etching hand-coloured in watercolour) by Blake, William (1757-1827); 15.7x14.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Frontispiece to the second part of Blake's poems Songs of Innocence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.
The pastoral poems in Innocence express religious faith and acceptance with fine detail and flowing lines; the bardic verses in Experience convey disillusionment and anger (after the Fall) using bolder outlines.); English, out of copyright

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Ruth the Dutiful Daughter in Law, 1803 (pencil & w/c on paper)

SOU314964 Ruth the Dutiful Daughter in Law, 1803 (pencil & w/c on paper) by Blake, William (1757-1827); Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire, UK; (add.info.: Naomi entreats her daughters-in-law Ruth and Orpah to remain in their homelands; Bible: Ruth: 1: 16: And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Naomi and Ruth return to Bethlehem); A© Southhampton City Art Gallery ; English, out of copyright

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In living creations appear'd..., plate 8 from '

XYC256359 In living creations appear'd..., plate 8 from The First Book of Urizen, 1794 (colour-printed relief etching with ink and w/c) by Blake, William (1757-1827); 24.5x18.1 cm; Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, USA; (add.info.: Urizen with the Book of Brass';); English, out of copyright

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