Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Title:
The First Book of Urizen, Plate 12, "Los Smitten with Astonishment...." (Bentley 8)
Date:
1794
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite upper right: "25 - | [ . . . ] | 10 - [ . . . ]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.5(12)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
dead | bones (material) | skeleton | text | literary theme | religious and mythological subject | kneeling | death
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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)

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

William Blake (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-03-26 - 2000-07-05)
Publications:
William Blake, Libros profe´ticos, vol. 1, Atalanta, Vilau¨r, Spain, 2013, p. 295, PR4142 .S35 2013
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3900