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1,459 works

Hand-coloured illuminated plate of children and adults on a green beneath vines, with a poem above.

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green (second plate)

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Pen and brown wash drawing of two curved ornamental cornice designs with scrollwork, volutes and small putti figures.

Two Designs for the Decoration of a Circular Frieze or Cornice

Agostino Mitelli, mid-17th century

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns by soldiers, inside a circular border of scrollwork and putti, dated 1509.

Christ Crowned with Thorns, from the Circular Passion

Lucas van Leyden, 1509

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Innocence showing a child with sheep beside a cottage, poem text above, vine border.

Songs of Innocence: The Lamb

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Ink drawing on blue paper of a wren on a thorny branch with leaves, berries and a beetle in a circular design.

Design for a Plate

Karl Bodmer, 1825-93

Red chalk drawing of a man with long curly hair and a wide-brimmed hat, looking to the side with a serious expression.

Portrait of a man, bust-length, wearing a hat

Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, ca. 1510-15

Hand-colored page with a swirling tree, winged figures, and two verses about a sparrow and robin, titled The Blossom.

Songs of Innocence: The Blossom

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Circular brown ink drawing of the Judgment of Paris with three nude goddesses, a seated man, Cupid, and a reclining river god

The Judgment of Paris

Pieter de Jode, late 16th-mid 17th century

Etching of an elderly woman with a headscarf and lace collar, head bent, seen three-quarters right, dated 1628.

The Artist's Mother: Head and Bust, Three-Quarters Right

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1628

Illuminated page of Blake's poem The Chimney Sweeper with colored border and figures dancing in a green landscape below.

Songs of Innocence: The Chimney Sweeper

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Dark chiaroscuro print of a Roman-style triumphal procession with soldiers, spears, banners and a crowned figure.

Sheet 8 from "The Triumphs of Caesar"

Andrea Andreani, 1599

Grey wash drawing after Giotto showing St. Francis on a bier, mourning monks, a procession and angels above.

Death of St. Francis, after Giotto, upper Church San Francesco, Assisi

William Young Ottley, 1795-1836

Hand-colored page with a child pointing into a dark night landscape, above the poem The Little Boy Lost in orange lettering.

Songs of Innocence: Little Boy Lost

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Daumier lithograph of two men: one bundled in winter coat and top hat, the other relaxed in summer clothes, captioned about V

The assemby in Versailles: In January -Wretched winter!... In June -Scoundrel of a summer!...

Honoré Daumier, June 22, 1872

Brown ink and wash design of a bird resting among curving branches and feathery leaves inside a circular frame.

Design for a Plate Decorated with a Bird and Plant Motifs

Karl Bodmer, 1825-93

Hand-colored illustration of a haloed robed figure leading a small child through dark trees, with verse text below.

Songs of Innocence: The Little Boy Found

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Daumier lithograph: an elderly woman clasps her hands as a young woman watches bouquets thrown from a crowded theater balcony

The mother of the actress, from 'Dramatic sketches,' published in Le Charivari, July 2, 1864

Honoré Daumier, July 2, 1864

Pen and ink study of a coffered ceiling with nine panels, ornamental borders and rosettes, with pencil sketches inside the pa

Study for the Ceiling of a Salon in the Hotel de Mazarin

François Joseph Belanger, 1779

Watercolor illuminated page of Blake's Laughing Song showing figures feasting under trees above poem text with bird border.

Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Lithograph of three men talking at a café table, one smoking a pipe, with a newspaper and glasses before them.

The ravaged poets' corner, from 'In the pub,' published in Le Charivari, January 7, 1864

Honoré Daumier, January 7, 1864

Circular etching of large trees on a riverbank with a small boat, figures, a tower at left, and distant buildings.

Landscape with Trees by the Water

Goffredo Wals, n.d.

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

Etching of the Annunciation: a kneeling winged angel offers a lily to a haloed Virgin seated beside a fruit basket and table.

The Annunciation

Jacques Bellange

Lithograph of acrobats, stilt walkers and a ringmaster with a hoop on a stage, watched by a crowd of spectators.

Grands Sauteurs!, from "La Caricature"

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1823-60

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

Lithograph of a cart of wounded soldiers pulled by horses, with a man in a greatcoat gesturing beside it.

Cart Loaded with Wounded Soldiers

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Circular pen drawing of Christ at the cross's foot, mourned by Mary and John, with a ladder and soldiers behind.

Christ at the Foot of the Cross, Mourned by Mary and John

Nicolaas Hogenberg, early 16th century

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

Lithograph of an elderly man in a top hat sitting on steps with a dog, beside a shop window and a street scene.

Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Pen and gray wash stage design drawing of a conical tent, overturned wagon, cannon and grassy rocky ground.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Tent and Overturned Wagon

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

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

Lithograph of soldiers and horsemen crossing a snowy Alpine pass while a man in a cocked hat points forward.

Passage through Mt. Saint-Bernard

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Etching of a rural cottage in a field with bare trees at right and a distant village under an open sky.

The Cottage

Camille Pissarro, 1879

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

Etching of two bathers, one standing nude adjusting a hat and one seated figure bending to touch her foot, in loose hatched l

Two Bathers (Les Deux Baigneuses), from "L'Estampe Originale"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

Head of a Woman in Profile

Edgar Degas, 1879-80

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

Etching of two nude women seated in grass, one raising a hat, with diagonal cancellation lines across the sheet.

Les Deux Baigneuses (Cancelled impression)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895

Watercolor design drawing of an X-frame stool with blue upholstered seat and tassel fringe, set against a paneled wall.

Design for a Stool

A. Damon et Cie., ca. 1870-80

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

Watercolor drawing of a ruined classical colonnade with arches, fallen stones, and agave plants in the foreground.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Columned Exterior

Eugène Cicéri, 1828-90

Circular pen and ink drawing of figures under trees with a scroll inscription naming the four temperaments.

The Four Temperaments

Jörg Breu the Elder, 1500-1537

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

Watercolor drawing of a building facade with rows of pleached trees above a gridded garden plan and handwritten notes.

Elevation and Plan of the Façade of a Building

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1840

Pen and wash drawing of three gnarled, weathered tree trunks standing on grass, with textured bark and exposed roots.

Study of Three Old Gnarled Trees

Johannes Siberechts, 1660

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

Portrait of Louis-Francois Bertin, l'ainé

Anne-Louis Girodet, n.d.

Engraving of an angel and a young boy walking through a dark wooded landscape with a distant tower and cloudy sky.

Tobias and the Angel (large plate)

Hendrick Goudt, 1613

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

Engraving of nude figures and putti in a wooded landscape, with a winged cupid in the tree above.

Allegory of the Power of Love, with a man at center embracing a semi-naked woman, who is bound to a tree by Cupid

Cristofano di Michele Martini, 1480-1535

Etching of a nude long-haired man carrying a pale figure across a rocky hillside beneath cliffs and distant snowy mountains.

Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III)

Max Klinger, 1898

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

Etched roundel portrait of a woman in a large pleated lace ruff and dark gown, by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644.

Woman with circular lace ruff, from "Women's Heads Framed in Roundels"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a divided fur cap and fur-trimmed coat, hand resting on his chest.

Old Man with Divided Fur Cap

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

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

Head of Young Man

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644-52

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate rococo table leg with scrollwork, floral sprays and a carved female head.

Design for a Table

Giovanni Battista Natali III, 1698-1765

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

Etched bust portrait of a woman in a large round fur hat, lace ruff, and fur-trimmed cloak, within a circular frame.

Woman with large circular fur hat and lace ruff

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Architectural drawing of an octagonal bath pavilion with plan and two elevations, grey wash and yellow tint.

Design for a Bath in the Form of an Elongated Polygonal Temple, Plan and Two Elevations

John Vardy, mid-18th century

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

Circular etching of a woman wearing a large fur hat, earrings, and a lace collar, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Woman with large circular fur hat and earrings

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Engraving of Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, with a young boy holding a lantern walking beside them.

Aeneas rescuing Anchises, a young boy carrying a lantern at left

Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, ca. 1525

Hand-colored page with a poem in red text, showing a reclining nude, two children, lions, and a twisted tree.

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

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825