Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Title:
America. A Prophecy, Plate 2, Title Page
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching 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)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.2(2)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
children | dead | men | women | mourning | text | nudes | rain | night | clouds | religious and mythological subject
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)

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

The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)

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. 197, PR4142 .S35 2013

William Blake : Visionary, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, p. 117, pl. 73, NJ18.B57 A12 2020 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

William Blake, Tate Publishing, London, p. 70, cat. 45, NJ18.B57 M97 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3861