Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Title:
America. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Thus Wept the Angel Voice...."
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in blue ink upper right: "10"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.2(12)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
men | nudes | flames | religious and mythological subject | text | fire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14)

William Blake - The Artist (Tate Britain, 2019-09-11 - 2020-02-20)

William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Block Museum of Art, 2017-09-23 - 2018-03-11)

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

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. 217, PR4142 .S35 2013

He´le`ne Pharabod-Ibata, The Challenge of the Sublime, from Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art, Manchester University Press, Manchester, p. 179, fig. 10, NX650.S92 P43 2018 (LC) (YCBA)

Colin Trodd, The Energy Man: Blake, Nietzscheanism and Cultural Criticism in Britain, 1890-1920, Visual Culture in Britain, 19, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England, p. 292, N6761 V57 (LC) (YCBA)

William Blake : Visionary, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, p. 125, pl. 83, NJ18.B57 A12 2020 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3854