Europe a Prophecy copy K plate 04 by William Blake

Hand-colored illuminated page with a walking figure, a crouching man at a cave, and handwritten verse below.

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Europe a Prophecy copy K plate 04, William Blake (1794), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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This illuminated page, titled Preludium, shows a walking figure with a staff on the left and a crouching, anguished figure emerging from a dark cave on the right. Below, a winged serpent and a figure with outstretched limbs accompany a block of handwritten verse in an ornamental border. The work is a hand-colored print by William Blake, dated 1794, from his Europe a Prophecy.

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1794

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