Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Title:
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 12 (Bentley 22)
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "13"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.43.1431
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
flames | nudes | men | shackle | beard | literary theme | fire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Block Museum of Art, 2017-09-23 - 2018-03-11)

William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04)

William Blake (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-03-26 - 2000-07-05)

The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)

William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)

William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
Publications:
William Blake, Libros profe´ticos, vol. 1, Atalanta, Vilau¨r, Spain, 2013, p.326, PR4142 .S35 2013

Andrew Burkett, Romantic Mediations : Media Theory and British Romanticism, State University of New York Press, Albany, p. 114, fig. 3.18, PR447 .B77 2016 (LC)

Nancy L. Pressly, The Fuseli circle in Rome : Early Romantic art of the 1770s, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, p. 140, no. 141, N6425 .N4 P73 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2357