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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

Man in a wide hat and robe steps through a glowing Gothic archway, holding a bundle, in a dark watercolor scene.

Los Entering the Grave

1804

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, both with golden halos, against a dark starry sky.

Virgin and Child

1825

Pen and wash drawing of a white horse beside a standing woman and a kneeling child beneath tall trees.

The Horse

1805

Watercolor by William Blake showing a crowned woman with a golden chalice riding a seven-headed beast above a battle scene.

The Whore of Babylon

1809

The Ghost of a Flea

1819

Watercolor of a sleeping man below a glowing stairway with angels ascending and descending toward a radiant light.

Jacob's Ladder

1805

Watercolor of a red dragon with horned heads descending above a glowing woman with raised arms, rocky ground below.

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

1805

Pencil sketch of a robed female figure with raised arms, holding a flowering staff, on a tall pale panel.

Evening

1820

Watercolor of a multi-faced winged figure before concentric wheels full of eyes, with a bearded figure seated above.

Ezekiel's Wheels

Watercolor drawing of a seated holy family with a standing infant, flanked by praying angels and a lamb among flowers.

The Holy Family (Christ in the Lap of Truth)

c. 1805

Engraved title page for Blake's Book of Job illustrations, showing winged figures on a cloud beneath decorative lettering.

Title-Page of the Engraved Illustrations to the Book of Job

1825

Engraving of Job and his family kneeling and praying beneath a tree, with sheep, a crescent moon and a distant church.

Job and His Family

1825

Engraving of a running messenger approaching a seated bearded man and a woman with raised hands, beneath a tree and sheep.

The Messengers Tell Job of His Misfortunes

1825

Engraving by William Blake: enthroned God above angels, Satan descending in flames toward Job, his wife and servant, with an

Satan Going Forth from the Presence of the Lord

1825

Engraving of nude Satan standing over Job covered in boils, with a kneeling woman and rising sun behind.

Satan Smiting Job with Boils

1825

Engraving of a seated bearded man with a woman behind him, while robed figures raise their arms toward a bright sky above mou

Job's Comforters

1825

Engraving of a bearded seated man with raised arms beside two mourning figures, with a stone structure and text.

Job's Despair

1825

Engraving of a radiant haloed figure above kneeling men gazing upward, framed by an inscribed border of text.

The Vision of Eliphaz

1825

Engraving of Job seated among three gesturing bearded friends and his wife, with mountains behind and verses above and below.

Job Rebuked by His Friends

1825

Engraving of Job tormented on his bed by a looming winged serpent-like demon, with flames and Biblical text around the border

Job's Evil Dreams

1825

Engraving of a standing young man gesturing to the stars while bearded elders sit and kneel before him, with biblical text bo

The Wrath of Elihu

1825

Engraving of a bearded figure in a whirlwind above two kneeling, praying figures, with verses from Job inscribed.

The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind

1825

Engraving of God enthroned above rows of angels and kneeling figures, with Creation scenes in side borders.

The Creation

1825

Engraving of God above kneeling figures and angels, with the beast Behemoth and the sea creature Leviathan in a circular fram

Behemoth and Leviathan

1825

Engraving of God enthroned with angels while a falling figure plunges through flames above crouching figures, with scriptural

The Fall of Satan

1825

Engraving of a robed figure with arm outstretched toward kneeling people under radiating light, with scripture text.

The Vision of God

1825

Engraving of a robed figure with arms outspread before a stone altar in radiant light, two kneeling figures beside, winged an

Job's Sacrifice

1825

Engraving of Job seated under a tree while figures offer him money, framed by winged figures and biblical text.

Job Accepting Charity

1825

Engraving of bearded Job with outstretched arms among three daughters, framed by vines and biblical verses.

Job and His Daughters

1825

Engraving of robed musicians with harps and trumpets beside sheep and rams, under a crescent moon and sunrise, with biblical

Job and His Wife Restored to Prosperity

1825

Pencil sketch of ghostly figures near a tomb under a crescent moon, with loose, unfinished lines on tan paper.

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

1805/1808

Engraving of a bearded God enthroned in light, with angels and a figure before him, and a biblical scene below.

Satan Before the Throne of God

1825

John Caspar Lavater

1787/1801

Four stacked panels of a pastoral landscape engraving: a tree and moon, a figure by a gate, sheep by a river, and a traveler

The Pastorals of Virgil

1821

Pen and ink drawing of a nude man raising a torch against swirling dark smoke and clouds.

Nude Figure of a Man with Flaming Torch

n.d.

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

Black-and-white print of two nude figures separated by a dark band with geometric symbols, with animals and faces in the text

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

possibly c. 1805

Engraving of a bearded, muscular man in loose drapery standing among rocks by the sea, with light rays in the sky.

Joseph of Arimathea Among the Rocks of Albion

c. 1803/1810

Pencil sketch of a smiling young woman with curled hair, head turned in three-quarter view, by William Blake.

Wat Tyler's Daughter

c. 1819

Pencil drawing of a bearded man with curled hair and a crown, labeled Canute, on pale paper.

King Canute

c. 1819/1820

Pencil sketch of a robed figure with bowed head and swirling lines, with a small crouching figure at lower right.

Time's Triple Bow [recto]

c. 1804/1807

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 drawing of two human legs standing on a ground line, with a partial leg study beside them on aged paper.

Two Legs

probably 1805/1810

Loose pencil sketch of a figure ascending among swirling cloud forms, with a handwritten inscription in the lower right.

A Figure Ascending in a Glory of Clouds (?)

probably c. 1805

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 bearded seated figure in long robes with outstretched arms, attributed to William Blake.

An Ascending Spiral of Figures [recto]

probably c. 1820

Pencil sketch of a title page with decorative lettering reading Illustrations of the Book of Job, framed by winged figures.

Sketch for the Title-Page of the Engraved Illustrations to the Book of Job

c. 1823/1826

Pen and ink drawing of The Last Judgment with a central enthroned figure, angels, rising souls and crowds of nude figures bel

The Last Judgment

c. 1809

Blake's watercolor of a red dragon with crowned heads standing over a sea beast with many faces, under a starry sky.

The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea

1805

Pencil and blue-tinted drawing of an inverted nude male figure with arms raised, on cream paper.

An Angel with a Trumpet

1805

Pencil sketch of a man's head in three-quarter view on tan paper, with handwritten ink notes along the bottom edge.

A Visionary Head

1819

Drawing of a kneeling woman gazing up at a glowing risen figure in an arch, with two kneeling angels beside a tomb.

Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre

1805

Pencil sketch of a nude woman rising between two winged angels with radiating light lines, inscribed from the Book of Enoch.

The Descent of the Angels to One of the Daughters of Men

c. 1824/1827

Pencil sketch of a nude woman beneath a winged angel with entwining forms and foliage on a tan ground.

An Angel Teaching a Daughter of Men the Secrets of Sin

c. 1824/1827

Pencil sketch of a nude woman with raised arms, a scaled serpentine figure, and a reclining figure on pale paper.

The Daughter of Men Becomes a Siren

c. 1824/1827

Pencil sketch of a robed, seated figure with closed eyes under a canopy, labeled Book of Enoch, on tan paper.

Enoch before the Great Glory

c. 1824/1827

Pencil sketch of a standing nude figure surrounded by swirling winged forms, labeled Book of Enoch.

The Vision of the Lord of Spirits

c. 1824/1827

Watercolor drawing of a Last Judgment scene with an enthroned central figure, angels, rising souls and damned figures in flam

The Day of Judgment

1805

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

Blake watercolor of a robed angel leading Eve to a reclining Adam beneath a grapevine.

Angel of the Divine Presence Bringing Eve to Adam (The Creation of Eve: "And She Shall be Called Woman) (recto); Sket…

ca. 1803

Watercolor drawing of a towering nude angel raising one arm before a sunburst, holding an open book, feet in flame above the

Angel of the Revelation (Book of Revelation, chapter 10)

ca. 1803-5

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

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a man with a shield standing among draped female figures with halos, before a Gothic hilltop

Christian with the Shield of Faith, Taking Leave of His Companions

1824-1827

Engraving of Job with his three daughters beneath circular vignettes, framed by a vine border with a lyre and verse text.

Job en zijn drie dochters

1825

Engraving of robed figures and musicians gathered by a fiery altar with animals below, framed by text from the Book of Job.

Job dankt God

1825

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

Hand-colored title page with gilt lettering, winged figures, and a woman in pink mourning over a reclining body on a tomb.

Songs of Experience: Title-page

[1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with watercolor cattle and sheep above a poem, The Clod & the Pebble, and small ducks and frogs below.

Songs of Experience: The Clod & the Pebble

[1794] printed ca. 1825

Page from Blake's Songs of Experience with the poem Holy Thursday, watercolor scenes of a standing woman, mountains and child

Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday

[1794] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page with the poem The Little Girl Lost, two embracing figures, a lion, and a vine border in watercolor.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost

[1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored print of a small figure in snow beside a cottage, with a poem titled The Chimney Sweeper above.

Songs of Experience: The Chimney Sweeper

[1794] printed ca. 1825