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 2013He´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)