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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Edwards, Richard, active 1796–1797
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Young, Edward, 1683–1765
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Burke, Thomas, 1749–1815
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Dryden, John
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Haward, Francis, 1759–1797
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Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741–1807
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Wilkin, Charles, 1750–1814
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Young's Night Thoughts
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wove paper
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Rebecca, Lady Northwick (nee Bowles, married Sir John Rushout; d. 1818)
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Rushout, Anne (d. 1849)
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The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
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William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)
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William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the First. On Life, Death, and Immortality; Title Page
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine' (Page 8)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe' (Page 1)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'But for the blessing wrestle not with heaven' (Page 88)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts
1797
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Print made by Francis Haward, 1759–1797
Cymon and Iphigenia
1797
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Print made by Charles Wilkin, 1750–1814
The Right Honourable Charlotte Viscountess St. Asaph
1797
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Print made by Thomas Burke, 1749–1815
Content and Innocence
1797
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Robert Pollard, 1755–1838
A North East View of the Tuesday Market Place of Lynn Regis
1797
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John Nixon, ca. 1760–1818
Maiden Speeches in the New Parliament of 1796 (Plate I)
1797