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"And purple tyrants vainly groan..." (Design 37)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Ode to Adversity; Title Page
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty..." Design 39)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Progress of Poesy, A Pindaric Ode; Title Page
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow..." (Design 43)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Cytherea's Day..." (Design 45)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam..." (Design 47)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Brush'd by the hand of rough Mischance, Or chill'd by Age..." (Design 5)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray..." (Design 51)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Bard, A Pindaric Ode; Title Page
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Hayley, the Disciple of John Flaxman, from a Medallion
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving and stipple on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (22.3 × 15.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles J. Rosenbloom, B.A. 1920
The Bard Weaving Edwards Fate (Design 55)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink, graphite and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Hark, how each giant -oak, and desert-cave, Sigh to the torrent's awful voice beneath!..." (Design 57)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"O'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heav'n..." (Design 59)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
"Fell thirst and famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest..." (Design 61)
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Rev. John Caspar Lavater
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1800
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/8 × 11 9/16 inches (36.5 × 29.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1810 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 37 5/8 inches (34.9 × 95.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Shepherd, from Songs of Innocence
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 x 2 1/2 inches (7.6 x 6.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Spring, from Songs of Innocence
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 1 7/8 x 2 3/4 inches (4.8 x 7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
The Book of Thel
Creator:
Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of eight relief etchings printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink
Dimensions:
Plate: 6 x 4 1/4in. (15.2 x 10.8cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Europe. A Prophecy
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793, printed 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of 17 relief etchings printed in dark brown ink, with watercolor and oil paint added posthumously, on 17 leaves
Dimensions:
Spine: 15 3/8in. (39.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The First Book of Urizen
Creator:
Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of 28 color-printed relief etchings, with hand coloring in watercolor
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8in. (25.4 x 18.1cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, London, 1826
Creator:
Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of twenty engravings
Dimensions:
Spine: 13 3/4in. (34.9cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Sheet from the Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819, Pages 27 and 28
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1819
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 8 inches (15.6 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Keith C., Yale BA 1968, and Mildred B. Marshall
Sheet from the Blake-Varley Sketchbook of 1819, Pages 37 and 38
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1819
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and black chalk on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 8 inches (15.6 x 20.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Keith C., Yale BA 1968, and Mildred B. Marshall
The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper (volume 3)
Creator:
Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1803-1804
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume with engraved illustrations on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Job and His Family
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Illustrations of The Book of Job; Title Page
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
The Messengers Tell Job of His Misfortunes
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Satan before the Throne of God
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 1/2 × 10 3/8 inches (39.4 × 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Job's Evil Dreams
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (40 × 26.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Job's Despair
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
The Vision of Eliphaz
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Job's Comforters
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Satan Going Forth from the Presence of the Lord and Job's Charity
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
The Wrath of Elihu
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
"Her voice pierc'd Albions clay cold ear..." (Plate 95)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, white gouache, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
I, "Why should the mistress of the vales of Har, utter a sigh..." (Plate 4)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Abraham and Isaac
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1799 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Tempera and pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (26.7 x 39.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1799 to 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Tempera with pen and black ink on canvas
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 inches (26 x 38.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Moses Receiving the Law
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1780
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink with gray wash, black wash and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 26 x 12 1/4 inches (66 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1784 to 1785
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with pen and gray ink and gray wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches (23.5 x 33.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1786 to 1789
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink with gray wash and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches (18.7 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Thomas Alphonso Hayley, Half-Length Drawing
Creator:
attributed to William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1800
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (17.1 x 13.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Charles Rosenbloom
Sealing the Stone and Setting a Watch
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1800 to 1803
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and gray ink, black ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 20 × 16 15/16 inches (50.8 × 43 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901 Fund
A Woody Landscape
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 7/8 x 9 inches (14.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Entrance Front of Hayley's House at Eartham
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1801
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink with watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 inches (14 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Landscape with Spire
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1801
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches (15.6 x 22.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Albion Compelling the Four Zoas to Their Proper Tasks
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1804 to 1810
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and black chalk on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (25.1 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1805
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and gray ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (43.8 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Widow Embracing Her Husband's Grave
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1805 to 1808
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and gray ink with graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 8 1/8 inches (15.2 x 20.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1803 to 1805
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, with pen, and black ink gray ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/16 × 12 1/2 inches (35.7 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Gambols of Ghosts According with Their Affections Previous to the Final Judgment
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1805 to 1808
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and brown wash on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/4 × 12 1/2 inches (46.4 × 31.8 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
An Angel with a Trumpet
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
between 1805 and 1808
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, watercolor, and pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (19.7 x 10.5 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Laocoön, for Rees's Cyclopædia
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1815
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 inches (32.1 × 22.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
A Visionary Head
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1819 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (19.1 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Five Visionary Heads of Women
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1819 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches (27 x 32.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Socrates, a Visionary Head
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (22.5 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Study for a Destroying Deity
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1820 to 1825
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 3/4 × 24 inches (45.1 × 61 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1825
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches (42.2 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1795 to 1805
Materials & Techniques:
Color monotype, watercolor, pen and black ink and varnish on moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 17 x 22 1/2 inches (43.2 x 57.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Purchased 1929

563. Pity

Pity
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Color printed monotype, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and varnish on moderately textured wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches (41.3 x 51.4 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1822
Materials & Techniques:
White-line metal cut engraving on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 x 9 1/8 inches (17.8 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Job's Sons and Daughters Overwhelmed by Satan
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Page 14
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Page 17
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Page 18
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Page 15
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustrations of Eclogue I, Introductory, The Giant Polypheme
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

571. Theocritus

Theocritus
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustrations of Imitation of Eclogue I, Page 16
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving and letterpress on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
From Antique Coins
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Caius Julius Cæsar
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Octavius Augustus Cæsar
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

576. Epicurus

Epicurus
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Death of Juliet
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1799
Materials & Techniques:
Etching on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches (24.4 x 14.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
Original Wrapper to The Book of Thel
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Paper wrapper
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Little Black Boy (Plate 30)
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
The Vision of Christ
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 7/8 × 10 5/8 inches (40.3 × 27 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Every One also Gave Him a Piece of Money
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Illustrations of The Book of Job, Cover
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Job and His Family Restored to Prosperity
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Job and His Daughters
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
The Fall of Satan
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Job Rebuked by His Friends
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
When the Morning Stars Sang Together
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (40.3 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Job's Sacrifice
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
Behemoth and Leviathan
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 × 10 3/4 inches (40.6 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of J. T. Johnston Coe in memory of Henry E. Coe, Yale BA 1878, Henry E. Coe Jr., Yale BA 1917, and Henry E. Coe III, Yale BA 1946
The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of engravings in brown calf with marbled boards
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4in. (42.5cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Job Rebuked by His Friends
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (37.8 × 27.6 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of engravings
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4in. (42.5cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
For Children. The Gates of Paradise, London, by William Blake
Creator:
Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Volume of etchings bound in quarter calf and marbled boards
Dimensions:
Spine: 5 5/8in. (14.3cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Visions of the Daughters of Albion: The Eye Sees More than the Heart Knows
Creator:
Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Volume of 11 relief etchings printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor
Dimensions:
Spine: 14in. (35.6cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Illustrations of The Book of Job
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1826
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of twenty-one engravings on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 1/2 inches (41.9 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
There is No Natural Religion
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
ca. 1788
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of color-printed relief etchings, several with watercolor
Dimensions:
Spine: 5 1/2in. (14cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts
Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1797
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of engravings; Bentley Copy N
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
Creator:
Prints made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1789-1794
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume of relief etchings printed in dark-brown ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures, Poetical and Historical Inventions, Painted by William Blake in Water-Colours, Being the Ancient Method of Fresco Painting Restored, London
Creator:
Text by William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1809
Materials & Techniques:
Bound volume, 12mo, full red crushed levant morocco, Jansen style, with gilt edges
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/2 inches (19.1 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection