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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

131 works

Hand-colored page showing children playing on a green under a large tree, with a poem printed below in orange text.

Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Etching of a sleeping nude infant reclining beneath a tree with two birds in the branches and a club beside him.

Infant Hercules asleep

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1625-77

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-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 drawing of a curly-haired child carrying a puppy on his shoulder, with a large dog and children near a tower.

Child Carrying a Puppy on his Shoulder

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1662

Circular engraving of Christ seated and mocked by a crowd of men, framed by ornate foliage and putti.

The Mocking of Christ, 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

Etching of a boy in an overcoat sketching on a drawing board while seated on a tree stump in a wooded setting.

The Artist Hoffman

Johann Christoph Erhard, 1815

Engraving of the Virgin and Child with Joseph, Saint Anne and two male saints in an arched columned interior.

The Holy Kindred, (Virgin and Child with Joseph, Anne and Two Male Saints) (copy)

Lucas van Leyden, n.d.

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

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned woman distributing gold from a chest to kneeling figures, with a raised sword and medieval

Kriemhild, in Mourning over Siegfried, Handing Out Treasures from the Nibelungen Hoard

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1854

Etching of putti harvesting wheat under a sun and tree, with a sickle, sheaves, a thatched hut and a pitcher.

Summer (L'Été)

Charles-Joseph Natoire, ca. 1735

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

Pen and ink sketch of the Virgin and Child with a bearded cleric holding grapes, with hatched drapery.

Virgin and Child with a Cleric

Hans Burgkmair, ca. 1503-05

Etching of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, with a halo, two birds, a tree and a distant landscape.

Virgin and Christ Child

Stefano Della Bella, 1641

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 playful children gathered before a thatched cottage and bare tree, with swans on water beyond.

L'Hiver from the Four Seasons

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1735

Octagonal etching of the Virgin Mary embracing the haloed Christ Child, with drapery and a curtain in the background.

Virgin and Christ Child, an octagonal composition

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1649

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

Sepia drawing of a farewell: a man in a boat, a grieving man, embracing women and children, with a domed interior scene above

"The Farewell"

Johannes Riepenhausen, late 18th-19th century

Etching of the Virgin nursing the Christ Child in a circular frame, with draped cloth and a distant landscape at right.

Virgin Nursing the Christ Child

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1641

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

Pen and ink drawing of the Virgin and Christ child with Saint Anne, Saint John, and sketched studies around them.

The Holy Family with Saint Anne and Saint John in a classical landscape; verso: The Holy Family with Saint Anne and S…

Karl Agricola, late 18th-19th century

Etching of a child and a satyr child playing with a goat under a large tree, with other figures and a landscape behind.

A child and a satyr child playing with a goat

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1657

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

Etching of the Flight into Egypt: a standing man, a kneeling woman with a child, a winged figure above a rocky cliff, and a p

Flight Into Egypt

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, 1759

Etching in a circle of a woman nursing an infant beside a young satyr with a vine garland, set among foliage and rocks.

Satyr family, from 'Landscapes and seaports' (Paysages et ports de mer, dans des ronds)

Stefano Della Bella, 1656

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

Woodcut of a seated bearded man writing beside an eagle, while a crowned woman with a child appears in rays of light above.

The Virgin Appearing to Saint John, frontispiece to "The Apocalypse"

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Etched frontispiece showing the Holy House of Loreto with the Virgin and Child on its roof, angels in clouds, and allegorical

Frontispiece for Le Véritable Plan et Pourtrait de la Maison de la Ste. Vierge

Stefano Della Bella, 1649