Illustrated Poems and Prints

Artistic prints combining poetry with visual elements, featuring illustrations from works like Blake's 'The Little Black Boy' and Goethe's 'The Violet', blending text and imagery.

Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist, 1720, 1720 Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist. A wind trader who is about to put a dagger in the chest is held up a mirror by the personification of the reason. In the background, caution with a shield marked y (= the IJ in Amsterdam) stops the wind trade. There are three parts of text on the leaf around the plate. Print in the bound fourth edition (304 B 12) of the great scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trade or action trade of 1720. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing  IJ Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist. A wind trader who is about to put a dagger in the chest is held up a mirror by the personification of the reason. In the background, caution with a shield marked y (= the IJ in Amsterdam) stops the wind trade. There are three parts of text on the leaf around the plate. Print in the bound fourth edition (304 B 12) of the great scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trad
Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist, 1720, 1720 Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist. A wind trader who is about to put a dagger in the chest is held up a mirror by the personification of the reason. In the background, caution with a shield marked y (= the IJ in Amsterdam) stops the wind trade. There are three parts of text on the leaf around the plate. Print in the bound fourth edition (304 B 12) of the great scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trade or action trade of 1720. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving / letterpress printing IJ Mirror of reason for the despairing actionist. A wind trader who is about to put a dagger in the chest is held up a mirror by the personification of the reason. In the background, caution with a shield marked y (= the IJ in Amsterdam) stops the wind trade. There are three parts of text on the leaf around the plate. Print in the bound fourth edition (304 B 12) of the great scene of foolishness with cartoons on the wind trad