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William Blake's Poetic Art

Whimsical and symbolic artworks from Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience', highlighting children, nature, and spiritual themes with vibrant colors and intricate designs.

Tom is told off by Ellie for poking a crab. Date: 1920
Tom is told off by Ellie for poking a crab. Date: 1920
136 assets in this story
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various manufacturers, Dutch family album with 22 photos, inside front cover - pasted, Photo album with 22 pages and a total of 22 photos, all cartes-de-visite. The album contains portraits of people in Northern Dutch costume., photo album, insert album, photos, Service, Distributed, National Collections, height 149 mm, width 120 mm, thickness, 29 mm, width 255 mm, compiler, 1850 - 1903, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, leather, glass, metal, albumen print, albumine print, color lithography (process), carbon print, color on cut, photographer
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The swallow and the birds; La Fontaine Fabel; Imagerie Artistique / Série 8. Leaf with a big representation from Jean de la Fontaine Fabel, from the swallow and birds. At the bottom right of a text block with a verse. Numbered top left: Série 8. - No. 18.
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Sencha the Druid on the Hill of Slane. The Moment of Good Luck is Come. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Stephen Reid from Eleanor Hull's Cuchulain The Hound of Ulster, Harrap, London, 1909.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 20, 'The Blossom' (Bentley 11), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1789 to 1794, Relief etching printed in dark-brown with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 inches (18.1 x 12.7 cm), Plate: 4 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches (11.1 x 7.3 cm), and Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm), angels, book, cherubs, children, clouds, leaf, literary theme, mother, plant, reading, text, tree, wings, women
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The Circle of the Corrupt Officials; the Devils Tormenting Ciampolo. Inferno, canto XXII. William Blake; English, 1757-1827. Date: 1827. Dimensions: 237 × 335 mm (image); 276 × 356 mm (plate); 392 × 539 mm (sheet). Hand-colored engraving on India paper, laid down on wove paper (chine collé). Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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June; Z: "K Osy" 1877, No. 607 (June 21), p. 411; Kossak, Juliusz (1824-1899), Gorazdowski, Edward (1843-1901), K Osy (Warsaw; magazine; 1865-1890); 1877 (1865-00-00-1890-00-00);
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Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, 'O Treacherous Conscience!', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1797, Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm), Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm), and Plate: 16 1/8 x 12 5/8 inches (41 x 32.1 cm), angel, book, cup, drinking, food, goblet, gown, literary theme, men, religious and mythological subject, robe, text, wings, women, writing (processes)
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The Flower Book - Flame Heath. From The Flower Book, 1905. Sir Edward Burne-Jones .
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Austria, Vienna, Illustration of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Purgatory, Song XXI) by Franz von Bayros, detail
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Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Young's Night Thoughts, Page 27, "O Treacherous Conscience!", 1797. Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 38, "Holy Thursday" (Bentley 33), 1789 to 1794. Relief etching printed in dark-brown with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.
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Valentines depicting woman in field with tree, flowers, and birds's nest; decorative vase with flowers.. Proofs, Greeting cards. 1865 - 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Women, Vases
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Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), September; from: "Kłosy" no. 638, vol. XXV, p. 185. Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899), draughtsman, cartoonist, Kłosy (Warszawa ; czasopismo ; 1865-1890), publisher, Gorazdowski, Edward (1843-1901), woodcutter
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Piotr Stachiewicz (1858-1938), March - from the series "Bo Y year"; Czernecki, Jan (Wieliczka, Kraków; Publisher; 1905-1939), Angrer C. & Göschl (Vienna; Fotochemigraphic Zak 1870-); around 1910 (1905-00-00-1920-00-00);
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 38, 'Holy Thursday' (Bentley 33), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1789 to 1794, Relief etching printed in dark-brown with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/8 x 5 inches (18.1 x 12.7 cm), Plate: 4 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (11.4 x 7.3 cm), and Spine: 7 3/8 inches (18.7 cm), branches, children, dead, gown, leaf, literary theme, mother, mountain, nude, text, tree, vegetation, vines, women
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Young's Night Thoughts, Page 87, 'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, ca. 1797, Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm), Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 7/8 inches (41.9 x 32.7 cm), and Plate: 15 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches (40 x 32.1 cm), beard, children, literary theme, men, text, women
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Greeting Card, "When beauteous Myra...lifts her eyes..."; England; black ink, water colors; Overall: 24.9 x 19.9 cm (9 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
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Illustration by Dinet from 'Mirages' Scenes of Arab life. 1906. Mirages, Scénes De La Vie Arab was illustrated by Etienne Dinet with commentary by Silman Ben Ibrahim Bamer. Nasreddine Dinet was born as Alphonse-Étienne Dinet; (1861 - 1929) was a French orientalist painter and was one of the founders of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes. He became so enchanted with North Africa (Algeria) and its culture, that he converted to Islam, and was proficient in Arabic.
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Kirke, Circe, a sorceress of Greek mythology, wall painting, fresco from historic Pompeii, digitally restored
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'I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear but a silver nutmeg & a golden pear The king of Spain's daughter came to visit me, all for the sake of my little nut tree.'
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 36, 'The Clod & the Pebble' (Bentley 32), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1794, Color-printed relief etching with pen and ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm) and Plate: 4 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches (11.4 x 7.3 cm), branches, cattle, duck, historical subject, leaf, sheep, text, trees, vines, water
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Allegory of the month of February Eugene Grasset (1845-1917). Allegory of the month of February. Engraving.
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Cromo francés Au Bon Marché con ilustración del cuento La Caperucita roja. Años 1900.
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The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 23, 'A Long Story.', William Blake, 1757-1827, British, between 1797 and 1798, Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page, Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm), bee, boys, children, circle (plane figure), collar, dancing, flute, girls, literary theme, men, musical instruments, ring, text, woman
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Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Plate 2, Title Page, William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1793, Relief etching printed in green with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches (34.6 x 24.8 cm), Plate: 6 1/2 x 5 inches (16.5 x 12.7 cm), Plate: 5 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches (13.7 x 8.9 cm), and Spine: 14 inches (35.6 cm), clouds, flames, literary theme, men, nudes, text, women
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Illustration from a 1900 edition of fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695), French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe. Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are con
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Illustration from a 1900 edition of fables by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695), French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe. Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature.
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The Falls of Niagara. Artist: Edward Hicks (American, Langhorne, Pennsylvania 1780-1849 Newton, Pennsylvania). Dimensions: 31 1/2 x 38 in. (80 x 96.5 cm). Date: ca. 1825.Hicks visited Niagara Falls in 1819, but he based this composition on a vignette of the falls from a map of North America published by Henry S. Tanner in 1822. As seen from the Canadian side, the falls are replete with the moose, beaver, rattlesnake and eagle, all traditional emblems of North America. The long poem inscribed around the picture is an excerpt from Alexander Wilson's "The Foresters" that originally appeared as a serial in the Philadelphia periodical "The Port Folio" in 1809-1810 and was reprinted at Newtown, Pennsylvania in 1818. Another version of this subject by Hicks was painted in 1835 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 33, Experience Title Page (Bentley 29), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1794, Color-printed relief etching with pen and ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm) and Plate: 4 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches (12.4 x 7.3 cm), beard, bed, historical subject, men, mourning, text, women
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Bilderserie Oper, Faust, Anrufung des Mephisto, Erscheinung Gretchen / Image series opera, Faust, invocation of Mephisto, appearance Gretchen, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.
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illustration by Henri Caruchet (1873 - 1948), for Byblis, Paris, 1901; written by Pierre Louys (1870-1925). Pierre Louys was a French writer and poet most famous for the inclusion of lesbian and classical themes in his works. In Greek mythology, Byblis or Bublis, was a daughter of Miletus. Her mother was either Tragasia, Cyanee, daughter of the river-god Meander, or Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria. She fell in love with Caunus, her twin brother.
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The Raven. Artist: Gustave Doré (French, Strasbourg 1832-1883 Paris). Author: Written by Edgar Allan Poe (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1809-1849 Baltimore, Maryland); Comments by Edmund Clarence Stedman (American, 1833-1908). Dimensions: Overall: 19 11/16 x 13 9/16 x 3/4 in. (50 x 34.5 x 1.9 cm). Publisher: Harper & Brothers (American, New York). Date: 1884. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Young's Night Thoughts, Title Page, 'Night the First, on Life, Death and Immortality.', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1797, Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Spine: 17 1/2 inches (44.5 cm), Sheet: 16 5/8 x 12 7/8 inches (42.2 x 32.7 cm), and Plate: 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (39.4 x 31.8 cm), angels, beard, children, family, gown, hand, literary theme, lyre, men, nudes, religious and mythological subject, sceptre, text, women
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Mrs. Cliff's yacht , Yachts, Books
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picture series plants and poems, bellflower / Bilderserie Pflanzen und Gedichte, Glockenblume, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital verbesserte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei,.
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Young's Night Thoughts, Title Page, 'Night the First, On Life, Death and Immortality.', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, ca. 1797, Etching and line engraving with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm), Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches (41.9 x 32.1 cm), and Plate: 15 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches (39.7 x 31.8 cm), angels, beard, children, family, gowns, hand, literary theme, lyres, men, nudes, sceptres, text, women