Artworks · William Blake

Epitome of James Hervey’s ‘Meditations among the Tombs’

1820 · Ink, watercolour and gold paint on paper

support: 431 x 292 mm

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'The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour,' from Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress

1820 · Relief etching and white line engraving on ivory wove paper

Image/block: 8 × 16.2 cm (3 3/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 12.2 × 19.1 cm (4 13/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green

1820 · Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold

sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colinet's journey, a milestone markes "LXII miles to London"

1820 · wood engraving on paper

height: 35 cm, width: 74 cm

Rijksmuseum

Thenot and Colinet eat their evening meal

1820 · wood engraving on paper

height: 35 cm, width: 77 cm

Rijksmuseum

Illustrations of imitation of Eclogue I

1820 · wood engraving on paper

width: 74 cm, height: 36 cm

Rijksmuseum

King Edward

1819 · graphite

overall: 22.7 x 18.3 cm (8 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

King Canute

1819 · graphite

overall: 25.8 x 20.3 cm (10 3/16 x 8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Wat Tyler's Daughter

1819 · graphite

overall: 25.3 x 18.8 cm (9 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

A Vision: The Inspiration of the Poet (Elisha in the Chamber on the Wall)

1819 · Graphite and watercolour on paper

image: 244 x 211 mm frame: 530 x 455 x 30 mm

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Detailed Drawings for ‘A Figure Standing in a Gothic Apse’

1819 · Graphite on paper

support: 155 x 205 mm

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The Ghost of a Flea

1819 · Tempera and gold on mahogany

support: 214 x 162 mm frame: 382 x 324 x 50 mm

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The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (counterproof)

1819 · Graphite on paper

support: 296 x 235 mm

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The Head of the Ghost of a Flea. Verso: A Profile and a Reduced Drawing of Milton’s First Wife

1819 · Graphite on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 189 x 153 mm

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The Descent of Peace [recto]

1815 · graphite

overall (approximate): 31.3 × 23.2 cm (12 5/16 × 9 1/8 in.) image (approximate): 23.5 × 15.5 cm (9 1/4 × 6 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Chaining of Orc

1812 · relief etching

plate: 10.8 x 7.9 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.) sheet: 31.1 x 23.5 cm (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Canterbury Pilgrims

1810 · engraving

National Gallery of Art

The Canterbury Pilgrims

1810 · engraving

National Gallery of Art

The Canterbury Pilgrims

1810 · engraving

National Gallery of Art

The Canterbury Pilgrims

1810 · Line engraving on cream laid paper

Image: 29.5 × 92 cm (11 5/8 × 36 1/4 in.); Plate: 30 × 92.5 cm (11 13/16 × 36 7/16 in.); Sheet: 36.8 × 96.5 cm (14 1/2 × 38 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Last Judgment

1809 · pen and ink with wash over graphite

overall: 45.3 x 34.6 cm (17 13/16 x 13 5/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Bard, from Gray

1809 · Tempera and gold on canvas

support: 600 x 441 mm frame: 775 x 623 x 70 mm

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Enoch

1806 · Modified lithograph printed in relief from a stone; one state

Image: 8 1/2 × 12 3/16 in. (21.6 × 30.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (The Repose of the Holy Family in Egypt)

1806 · Watercolor, pen and black ink, over graphite

Sheet: 13 13/16 × 14 9/16 in. (35.1 × 37 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (The Repose of the Holy Family in Egypt)

1806 · Watercolor, pen and black ink, over graphite

Sheet: 13 13/16 × 14 9/16 in. (35.1 × 37 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unknown subject (Let Him look up into the Heaven and laugh in the bright air)

1805 · engraving and relief-etching (with some aquatint?)//printed in reverse of 1943.3.8974

plate: 16.2 x 9.5 cm (6 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.) sheet: 17.5 x 10.5 cm (6 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

A Figure Ascending in a Glory of Clouds (?)

1805 · graphite

overall: 22.9 x 18.8 cm (9 x 7 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Two Legs

1805 · graphite

overall: 27.7 x 22.7 cm (10 7/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

1805 · pen and gray ink with watercolor over graphite

Overall: 40.8 x 33.7 cm (16 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.) support: 55.2 x 44.2 cm (21 3/4 x 17 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea

1805 · pen and ink with watercolor over graphite

Overall: 40.1 x 35.6 cm (15 13/16 x 14 in.) support: 54.8 x 44 cm (21 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.) mat: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Unknown subject (Let Him look up into the Heaven and laugh in the bright air)

1805 · engraving and relief-etching

National Gallery of Art

A Resurrection Scene (The Gambols of Ghosts) [recto]

1805 · graphite

overall: 22.9 x 13.6 cm (9 x 5 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Crucifixion: ‘Behold Thy Mother’

1805 · Ink and watercolour on paper

support: 413 x 300 mm

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The Entombment

1805 · Ink and watercolour on paper

support: 417 x 310 mm

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Satan in his Original Glory: ‘Thou wast Perfect till Iniquity was Found in Thee’

1805 · Ink and watercolour on paper

support: 429 x 339 mm

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The River of Life

1805 · Ink and watercolour on paper

image: 305 x 336 mm support: 442 x 432 mm

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The Soul Hovering over the Body Reluctantly Parting with Life

1805 · Graphite on paper

support: 272 x 456 mm

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The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan

1805 · Tempera on canvas

support: 762 x 625 mm frame: 912 x 785 x 75 mm

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David Delivered out of Many Waters

1805 · Ink and watercolour on paper

support: 415 x 348 mm

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The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth

1805 · Tempera and gold on canvas

support: 740 x 627 mm frame: 875 x 753 x 85 mm

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Composition Sketch for ‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’? Verso: Standing Figure with Flaming Hair

1805 · Graphite on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 502 x 425 mm

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Composition Sketch. Verso: Standing Figure Holding a Spear

1805 · Graphite on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 508 x 370 mm

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Preliminary Sketch for ‘Christ Girding Himself with Strength’. Verso: Standing Figure with One Arm Raised

1805 · Graphite on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 505 x 425 mm

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The Day of Judgment

1805 · Pen and gray and black inks and watercolor, with scraping, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on tan board

27.4 × 22.2 cm (10 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Time's Triple Bow [recto]

1804 · graphite

overall: 30.7 x 24.3 cm (12 1/16 x 9 9/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Los and His Spectre [verso]

1804 · graphite, squared

overall: 20.3 x 15.9 cm (8 x 6 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Frontispiece to Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Great Albion

1804 · White line engraving, printed in orange ink

sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 7/16 in. (22.5 x 16.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Death of Saint Joseph

1803 · watercolor, graphite, and charcoal on wove paper

overall: 37.6 x 35.4 cm (14 13/16 x 13 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art