Materials & Techniques: line engraving / Genre: religious and mythological subject / Width [cm]: 32

1. Night the First. On Life, Death, and Immortality; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. 'Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life' (Page 16)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Night the Second. On Time, Death, and Friendship; Title Page (Page 17)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep" (Page 27)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. 'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. 'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. 'But for the blessing wrestle not with heaven' (Page 88)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1797
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Illustrations of The Book of Job; Title Page

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Engraving with chine-collé; proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 17 1/4in. (43.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Illustrations of The Book of Job

Creator:: Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:: 1826
Materials & Techniques:: Bound volume of 21 engravings with chine-collé; proofs on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Binding: 17 1/4in. (43.8cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Isabella Clara Eugenia

Creator:: Print made by Lucas Vorsterman I, 1595–1675
Date:: ca. 1635
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 7/16 × 12 3/4 inches (41.8 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Dido Building Carthage

Creator:: Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795–1870
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 3/4 inches (22.2 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius

Creator:: Print made by James Baylis Allen, 1803–1876
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 3/4 inches (22.9 × 32.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. The Bay of Baiæ, Apollo and the Sibyl

Creator:: Print made by Robert Brandard, 1805–1862
Date:: between 1859 and 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 12 1/2 inches (22.9 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. St. Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, Surrey

Creator:: Print made by James H. Kernot, 1802–1858
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; second state on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 11/16 × 14 15/16 inches (27.1 × 37.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Christ Church College, Oxford

Creator:: Print made by James Redway, active 1827–1838
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; third state on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 × 14 11/16 inches (27.9 × 37.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Eaton College, Berkshire

Creator:: Print made by William Radclyffe, 1780–1855
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine-collé; engraver's proof (a) on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 22 1/2 inches (41.9 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

37. Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland

Creator:: Print made by J. C. Varrall, active 1815–1827
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving, with graphite and scraping out; touched engraver's proof (a) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (31.1 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland

Creator:: Print made by J. C. Varrall, active 1815–1827
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine-collé; first published state on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 15 × 21 inches (38.1 × 53.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland

Creator:: Print made by J. C. Varrall, active 1815–1827
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving; engraver's proof (b) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 inches (29.8 × 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Christ Church College, Oxford

Creator:: Print made by James Redway, active 1827–1838
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with chine-collé; open etched state on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 22 1/2 inches (41.9 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Christ Church College, Oxford

Creator:: Print made by James Redway, active 1827–1838
Date:: 1834
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine-collé; engraver's proof (b) on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 16 1/2 × 22 1/2 inches (41.9 × 57.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Florence, from the Chiesa al Monte

Creator:: Print made by George Cooke, 1781–1834
Date:: 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and engraving with chine collé; engraver's proof (aa) on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 × 17 1/2 inches (30.5 × 44.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Frontispiece: Hercules Fighting the Hydra

Creator:: Print made by Francesco Curti, 1610–1690
Date:: ca. 1633
Materials & Techniques:: Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (22.2 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Night the First. On Life, Death, and Immortality; Title Page

2. 'Oft bursts my song beyond the bounds of life' (Page 16)

3. Night the Second. On Time, Death, and Friendship; Title Page (Page 17)

4. 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)

5. 'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)

6. 'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep" (Page 27)

7. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)

8. 'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)

9. 'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)

10. 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)

11. 'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)

12. 'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)

13. 'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)

14. 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)

15. 'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)

16. 'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)

17. 'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)

18. 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)

19. 'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)

20. 'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)

21. 'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)

22. 'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)

23. 'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)

24. 'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)

25. 'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)

26. 'But for the blessing wrestle not with heaven' (Page 88)

27. 'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)

28. Illustrations of The Book of Job; Title Page

29. Illustrations of The Book of Job

30. Isabella Clara Eugenia

31. Dido Building Carthage

32. Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius

33. The Bay of Baiæ, Apollo and the Sibyl

34. St. Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, Surrey

35. Christ Church College, Oxford

36. Eaton College, Berkshire

37. Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland

38. Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland

39. Brinkburn Priory, Northumberland

40. Christ Church College, Oxford

41. Christ Church College, Oxford

42. Florence, from the Chiesa al Monte

43. Frontispiece: Hercules Fighting the Hydra