Artworks · William Blake

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: The Lamb

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: Combined Title-page

1789 · Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold

Plate: 4 7/16 × 2 13/16 in. (11.2 × 7.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Songs of Innocence: Frontispiece

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: The Little Black Boy

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: The Little Black Boy (second plate)

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: The Blossom

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: Title Page

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: Introduction

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: The Shepherd

1789 · 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

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green (second plate)

1789 · 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

John Caspar Lavater

1787 · etching and engraving

National Gallery of Art

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing

1786 · Watercolour and graphite on paper

support: 475 x 675 mm

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Sketch for ‘Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana’. Verso: Sketch for ‘Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana’

1786 · Graphite on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 291 x 450 mm

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Job, his Wife and his Friends: The Complaint of Job. Verso: Job’s Wife and Eight Other Sketches

1785 · Ink and watercolour on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 311 x 451 mm

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Age Teaching Youth

1785 · Ink and watercolour on paper

support: 108 x 80 mm

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Lower Half of a Woman Playing a Harp. Verso: Seraphim and Other Drawings

1785 · Graphite on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 268 x 450 mm

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The Discomfited Duellists

1784

May-Day in London

1784

The Temple of Mirth, after Thomas Stothard

1784 · Engraving on paper

image: 174 x 230 mm

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Orlando in a Fury Tearing up Trees

1783

The Fall of Rosamond (after Thomas Stothard)

1783 · Etching, engraving and watercolour on paper

image, circular: 306 x 306 mm

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The Morning Amusements of her Royal Highness

1782

Sketch of a Swordsman Standing Over His Defeated Opponent [verso]

1780 · graphite

overall (approximate): 36.4 x 24.9 cm (14 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sketch of a Swordsman Standing Over His Defeated Opponent [recto]

1780 · graphite

overall (approximate): 36.4 x 24.9 cm (14 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

A Warring Angel [recto]

1780 · graphite on laid paper

overall: 32.1 x 44.5 cm (12 5/8 x 17 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

"And Saul Said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with Thee" [recto]

1780 · pen and ink over graphite on laid paper

overall (approximate): 27.6 x 39.2 cm (10 7/8 x 15 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Group of Men Seated in a Circle [recto]

1780 · pen and black ink with wash over black chalk on laid paper

overall: 28.4 x 35.2 cm (11 3/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Moses Staying the Plague (?) [recto]

1780 · pen and ink with wash on two joined sheets

overall: 34.3 x 42.8 cm (13 1/2 x 16 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

An Allegory of the Bible. Verso: The Shins of an Écorché Male Figure

1780 · Graphite, ink and watercolour on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 615 x 349 mm

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The Good Farmer, Probably the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. Verso: Rough Sketch of Two or Three Figures in a Landscape

1780 · Ink and watercolour on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 267 x 375 mm

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The Last Trumpet (recto); Two studies of a right eye, a profile of an open-mouthed young man, the head of an eagle, and the head of a lion (verso)

1780 · Recto: pen and gummed carbon black ink and layered gray ink washes with graphite underdrawing and reductive techniques

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Belvedere Torso [verso]

1779 · graphite on two joined sheets

overall: 42.8 x 34.3 cm (16 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Lear and Cordelia in Prison

1779 · Ink and watercolour on paper

support: 123 x 175 mm

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St Christopher, Copy from an Engraving? Verso:Part of a Face: Copy from a Plaster Cast: a Daughter of Niobe?

1779 · Ink on paper. Verso: graphite on paper

support: 435 x 338 mm

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Classical Combat (recto); Sketch of Male Nude (verso)

1775 · Pen and black ink over graphite (recto), and graphite (verso), on tan laid paper

17.2 × 24 cm (6 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Nude Figure of a Man with Flaming Torch

1757 · Graphite on paper

31.8 × 24.2 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

Watercolour and gouache on paper

support: 400 x 333 mm

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The Raising of Lazarus

Watercolour and graphite on paper

support: 431 x 322 mm

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Christ in the Carpenter’s Shop: The Humility of the Saviour

Watercolour and graphite on paper

support: 330 x 349 mm

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Plate 3 of ‘Urizen’: Oh! Flames of Furious Desires’

Watercolour on paper

support: 60 x 98 mm

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