Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 42, "The Tyger" (Bentley 42)
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "28"; in graphite, lower center: "42"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.43.1573
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
leaf | historical subject | tiger | grass | text | branches | vines | vegetation | trees
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14)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)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 : Visionary, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, pl. 55, NJ18.B57 A12 2020 OVERSIZE (YCBA)