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English & British

17,197 works

Hand-coloured illustration of a woman in a red robe bending over a sleeping infant in a cradle, with an inscribed verse above

Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem The Divine Image, framed by colorful scrollwork and small figures with vines.

Songs of Innocence: The Divine Image

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem Holy Thursday, showing rows of children in procession above and figures below.

Songs of Innocence: Holy Thursday

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Oval engraved portrait of a man in a powdered wig and embroidered coat, captioned John Hancock Esqr.

John Hancock

John Singleton Copley, 1770

Charcoal sketch of a seated shirtless man leaning on one arm, inside a circular border, by John Singer Sargent.

Thomas Eugene McKeller

John Singer Sargent, 1920

Hand-colored page of Blake's Night showing poem text, a slender tree, a crescent moon and small angel figures in blue and gre

Songs of Innocence: Night

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Engraved print of a seated man in a patterned robe painting at an easel, holding a brush and palette.

Washington Allston

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1840

Engraved portrait of an older man in a bow tie inside an ornate eagle-topped border, with signature and caption below.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Samuel Houston

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Blake illuminated plate: orange text verses above a night landscape with a tree and haloed angel figures in watercolor.

Songs of Innocence: Night (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man with wavy hair in a dark coat and bow tie, captioned Edgar A. Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe

John Sartain, 1840

Hand-colored page with a woman holding an infant under a tree beside sheep, and the verse 'Spring' below in orange text.

Songs of Innocence: Spring

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a child embracing a lamb beside sheep, with two verses of text and a swirling sun above.

Songs of Innocence: Spring (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Embossed white relief portrait of Henry Clay standing before a harbor scene with a ship, within an ornate green scrollwork bo

Henry Clay

John McPherson, 1840

Hand-colored page with the poem Nurse's Song above a scene of children playing in a green landscape while a seated nurse watc

Songs of Innocence: Nurse's Song

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a seated mother and infant under flame-like red forms, poem text and vine borders below.

Songs of Innocence: Infant Joy

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page titled A Dream with colored verse, foliage border, and a small figure beside a glow-worm and beetle.

Songs of Innocence: A Dream

William Blake, [1794] 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

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored print of a pink-clad figure holding a winged child aloft, with a tree, sheep, and yellow sunset landscape.

Songs of Experience: Frontispiece

William Blake, [1794] 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

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored 1840 portrait print of a man in a dark jacket and cravat, with a handwritten signature below.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Louis McLane

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Lithograph caricature: a man in white coat gestures to two Black men while a figure holds a whip and shackles.

A Dodge That Won't Work

John Cameron, 1870

Hand-colored page with poem Introduction, showing a reclining nude figure on a cloud beneath a sun, against a starry night sk

Songs of Experience: Introduction

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Lithograph portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white collar, captioned Mr. Hamblin, Theatre Royal Drury-Lane

Thomas S. Hamblin

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1820

Hand-colored page with the poem Earth's Answer in orange script, framed by blue and green watercolor, twisting roots and vine

Songs of Experience: Earth's Answer

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Colored caricature of a man in a long brown coat, dark hat and monocle holding a cane, from Vanity Fair.

J. A. M. Whistler

Leslie Ward, 1870

Oval engraved portrait of an elderly clergyman in a dark coat and white collar, mounted on a red card with handwritten notes.

Anton Bucher, Pfarrer zu Engelbrechtsmünster

Friedrich John, 1821

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

William Blake, [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

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Etching of a plumed armored man being fitted by an armorer in a workshop, with a verse caption below.

Bombastes Preparing for his Crusade to New Orleans

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Mezzotint portrait of a woman in a lace bonnet, ruffled collar and dark dress, hand resting in her lap with a ring.

Ann Dorothy Martineau

Charles Turner, 1830

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

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Blake illuminated page: a reclining woman in pink beside tents, and a lioness below beneath a branch, with poem text.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost (second plate); The Little Girl Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825