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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

15,034 works

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

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

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 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 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

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

Pen and brown ink drawing of a pastoral scene with shepherds, a well, sheep, cattle and large trees beside a river.

The Meeting of Jacob And Rachel at the Well

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640-49

Pen and brown wash drawing of a kneeling man before a haloed angel beside a candelabrum in a vaulted interior.

Zacharias and the Angel

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606-69

Pen and ink drawing of a man leading a laden camel with a decorated saddle, with faint sketches of other figures at left.

Man Leading a Camel

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1650-69

Pen and brown ink sketch of three figures: a standing bearded man, a gesturing woman in a headscarf, and a kneeling figure.

Study for a Pietà

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606-69

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

Brown wash drawing of shepherds resting among cattle, sheep and goats, with a piper and a ruined tower on a hill.

Pastoral

Willem Romeyn, 1640-94

Pen and ink sketch of a standing figure beside a row of heads and partial figures on tan paper.

Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium (recto); Sketches of the Baptism of Christ and of a Man (verso)

Peter Paul Rubens, ca. 1601-02 (recto); ca. 1601 (verso)

Brown ink and wash drawing of a kneeling figure before standing robed women on stone steps, after Rubens.

Presentation in the Temple

Peter Paul Rubens, recto 1611; verso 1601-2

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

Hand-colored Blake page with a verse above a woman in pink combing a child's hair beside vines and a seated figure.

Songs of Experience: Nurses Song

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Watercolor illustration of a woman and child beneath a tree, with a winged figure and a poem about a fly above.

Songs of Experience: The Fly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page by William Blake showing a reclining woman and a winged angel beneath a tree, with the poem The Angel below

Songs of Experience: The Angel

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page of Blake's poems My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower and The Lilly, with a watercolor vignette of two figur

Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Pen sketch of a man in plumed cap and armor and a woman in jeweled headdress, with handwritten colour notes.

Carolus, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Gerberga

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Drawing of Saint Lawrence on a grill surrounded by soldiers, a kneeling fire tender, and an angel above, in gray chalk.

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Peter Paul Rubens, early 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted warrior from behind, surrounded by rearing horses, soldiers, and raised spears in a battle.

Battle Scene

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Hand-colored page with three robed figures by a barred gate in a garden, above the handwritten poem The Garden of Love.

Songs of Experience: The Garden of Love

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with an old man in blue bending toward a child beside a brick wall, above the poem "London".

Songs of Experience: London

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page with hand-colored poem The Human Abstract above a bearded man in blue clutching his head beside a tree.

Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page showing a mother in pink reaching for a naked infant on a bed beneath the poem Infant Sorrow.

Songs of Experience: Infant Sorrow

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored illuminated page with poem To Tirzah above three robed figures tending a reclining nude beside green hills.

Songs of Experience: To Tirzah

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Study of a Standing Female Saint

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.