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Bearded man holding a red-lettered scroll while a winged angel stands behind him against a dark background.

St. Matthew

1799

Bearded figure crouching in a golden sun, reaching down with a compass over dark clouds and rays of light.

The Ancient of Days

1794

John Caspar Lavater

1787/1801

Hand-colored title page reading AMERICA PROPHECY with clouds, robed figures, and a fallen figure above dark waves.

America. A Prophecy, Plate 2, Title Page

1793

Winged figure crouches head-bowed on a ledge beside a nude woman holding a child under a dark, fiery sky.

America. A Prophecy, Plate 1, Frontispiece

1793

Hand-colored Blake plate: a nude man crouches amid dark flames beneath blue handwritten verse on a cream page.

America. A Prophecy, Plate 12,

1793

Pencil sketch of a seated man, an infant in a basket, and two standing figures in a classical interior.

The Infant Hercules Throttling the Serpents

1790-1793

Pencil sketch of a decorative border with scrolling ornament and small figures, inscribed as a first sketch by William Blake.

An Armed Man Spurning a Woman [recto]

c. 1790/1795

Pencil sketch of a horned nude figure with arms raised, holding up a large curved disc surrounded by zigzag lines.

Los Supporting the Sun [recto]

probably c. 1793

Etched fragment with cursive verse, a reclining figure, a winged form and scrollwork border, after William Blake's 1793 print

Restrike from fragment of cancelled plate for "A Prophecy"

1793

Engraving of a nude kneeling man gazing up at a bearded face in clouds, with a block of printed verse beside him.

Man aangesproken door een man vanuit de hemel

1796

Engraving of a winged figure seated on clouds touching a hatched globe, with a page of printed poetry beside it.

Man raakt vanaf een wolk een bol aan

1796

Engraved page by William Blake showing a haloed figure with children and robed adults beside a block of printed poetry.

Christus met mannen, vrouwen en kinderen

1796

Engraving of a reclining nude man and a bearded figure above him, beside a printed poem on a book page.

Twee mannen

1796

Engraved book plate of two nude men wrestling in a dark landscape, with a printed poem text block beside them.

Twee worstelende mannen

1796

Engraved page by William Blake showing an allegorical woman with scales and sword above a reclining figure and printed verse.

Vrouw kijkt naar de personificatie van Gerechtigheid

1796

Engraving of a reclining man and a tall draped figure beside a block of printed verse, numbered 93.

Liggende man en treurend stel

1796

Engraving of a nude figure with flaming hair and raised arms beside a page of printed verse, numbered 95.

Man omringd door bliksemschichten

1796

Engraved print of a sleeping man beside a book, with winged figures, a tree and a block of printed poetry above.

Man al schrijvende in slaap gevallen

1796

Engraving of a startled sleeper beside a bearded old man holding a bell, with a poem printed in the upper left.

Man schrikt op door een bebaarde man met bel

1796

Engraving of a robed bearded figure raising an arrow toward a sunburst, with a poem printed beside it.

Bebaarde man met pijl staat op een gekroonde man

1796

Engraving of a reclining couple with a serpent and child reaching for a bird, beside a page of printed verse.

Slang om het torso van man en een vrouw met kind dat een vogel najaagt

1796

Engraving by William Blake: bearded winged figure with arrow above a woman cradling a child, with poem text at left.

Man met baard en pijl zwevend boven een vrouw met kind

1796

Engraving of a sleeping shepherd beside a sheep, with a hovering winged woman above and a poem printed in the upper right.

Slapende herder en vliegend figuur

1796

Engraving of a reclining man reading, bound by thorny branches and chains, with a small woman and a printed poem above.

Lezende man geketend met een doorntakken en een kleine vrouw op zijn been

1796

Title page of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience with gold lettering, colored washes, and two entwined nude figures

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

[1789-94] printed ca. 1825

Watercolor of a shepherd boy with a pipe looking up at a winged child in pink clouds, with trees and sheep around him.

Songs of Innocence: Frontispiece

[1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page showing a shepherd with a staff beside a tree, sheep grazing below, and the poem The Shepherd above.

Songs of Innocence: The Shepherd

[1789] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page: a mother and child under a tree at sunrise, above the hand-lettered poem The Little Black Boy with decorati

Songs of Innocence: The Little Black Boy

[1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored Blake plate showing a seated elder under a willow with two children and sheep, with verse text above.

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

[1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page of William Blake's poem A Cradle Song with flowing gold vines and blue and pink washes.

Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song

[1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Innocence with poem On Anothers Sorrow, framed by a tree and decorative border.

Songs of Innocence: On Anothers Sorrow

[1789] printed ca. 1825