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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Gray, Thomas, 1716–1771
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Edwards, Richard, active 1796–1797
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Young, Edward, 1683–1765
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Vaslet, Lewis, 1742–1808
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The Poems of Thomas Gray
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Young's Night Thoughts
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The Spoiled Child
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18th century
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wove paper
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Exhibition History
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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William Blake - The Artist (Tate Britain, 2019-09-11 - 2020-02-20)
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
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Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04)
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Art in Focus : Wales (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-04-04 - 2014-08-10)
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Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17)
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English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
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Painting Networks - Romantic and Victorian Watercolors (Chazen Museum of Art, 2012-09-22 - 2012-12-02)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)
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Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1990-06-23 - 1990-08-05)
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William Blake, 1757–1827
"Cytherea's Day..." (Design 45)
between 1797 and 1798
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William Blake, 1757–1827
"O'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heav'n..." (Design 59)
between 1797 and 1798
3
William Blake, 1757–1827
"Fell thirst and famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest..." (Design 61)
between 1797 and 1798
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William Blake, 1757–1827
The Pensive Selima, "Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw; and purr'd applause..." (Design 9)
between 1797 and 1798
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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
'Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings' (Page 24)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Measuring his motions by revolving spheres' (Page 26)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)
1797
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William Blake, 1757–1827
"Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say..." (Design 113)
between 1797 and 1798
10
William Blake, 1757–1827
A Shepherd Reading the Epitaph (Design 115)
between 1797 and 1798
11
William Blake, 1757–1827
"To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face..." (Design 49)
between 1797 and 1798
12
William Blake, 1757–1827
The Bard Weaving Edwards Fate (Design 55)
between 1797 and 1798
13
William Blake, 1757–1827
Elizabeth. "Girt with many a Baron bold..." (Design 63)
between 1797 and 1798
14
William Blake, 1757–1827
The Three Fatal Sisters (Design 67)
between 1797 and 1798
15
William Blake, 1757–1827
"Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air..." (Design 71)
between 1797 and 1798
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William Blake, 1757–1827
"Hurry, hurry, to the field!" Design 75)
between 1797 and 1798
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'O treacherous conscience! while she seems to sleep" (Page 27)
1797
19
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)
1797
21
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)
1797
22
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
'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)
1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)
1797
25
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)
1797
26
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)
1797
27
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)
1797
28
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)
1797
29
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
Night the Third. Narcissa; 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
'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)
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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William Blake, 1757–1827
The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness, and to me..." (Design 107)
between 1797 and 1798
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William Blake, 1757–1827
"Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield..." (Design 109)
between 1797 and 1798
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William Blake, 1757–1827
"Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd, The slipp'ry verge her feet beguil'd..." (Design 11)
between 1797 and 1798
38
William Blake, 1757–1827
"Somevillage-Hampden, that with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood..," (Design 111)
between 1797 and 1798
39
William Blake, 1757–1827
"Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray..." (Design 51)
between 1797 and 1798
40
William Blake, 1757–1827
"To chase the rolling circle's speed..." (Design 17)
between 1797 and 1798
41
William Blake, 1757–1827
A Widower and Children (Design 35)
between 1797 and 1798
42
William Blake, 1757–1827
"And purple tyrants vainly groan..." (Design 37)
between 1797 and 1798
43
William Blake, 1757–1827
The Beginning of Poesy. The Blind Begging Bard (Design 41)
between 1797 and 1798
44
William Blake, 1757–1827
"Ambition this shall tempt to rise, The whirl the wretch from high..." (Design 19)
between 1797 and 1798
45
William Blake, 1757–1827
"An ancient pile of building stands... there Employed the power of Fairy hands" (Design 25)
between 1797 and 1798
46
William Blake, 1757–1827
"Up stairs in a whirlwind rattle..." (Design 29)
between 1797 and 1798
47
William Blake, 1757–1827
"At the chapel-door stand sentry... (Design 31)
between 1797 and 1798
48
William Blake, 1757–1827
"With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty..." Design 39)
between 1797 and 1798
49
William Blake, 1757–1827
The Purple Year awaking from the Roots of Nature (Design 3)
between 1797 and 1798
50
William Blake, 1757–1827
"My Lade rose, and with a grace– She smil'd, and bid him come to dinner..." (Design 33)
between 1797 and 1798
51
William Blake, 1757–1827
"The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow..." (Design 43)
between 1797 and 1798
52
William Blake, 1757–1827
"A brace of warriors... rustling in their silks and tissues..."(Design 27)
between 1797 and 1798
53
Attributed to Thomas Uwins, 1782–1857
The Death of - set by William Etty R.A
undated
54
Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
The Spoiled Child, Scene IV
ca. 1802
55
Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
The Spoiled Child, Scene VI
ca. 1802
56
Lewis Vaslet, 1742–1808
The Spoiled Child, Scene II
ca. 1802
57
Print made by Thomas Gaugain, 1748–1812
Diligence and Dissipation: Good Advice from an Old Servant to the Young Ones (Plate 2)
1797
58
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
The Return of the Fleet to Great Yarmouth in 1797
1797
59
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Newport High Street, Isle of Wight
between 1797 and 1800
60
Richard Corbould, 1757–1831
Winter
ca. 1802
61
Richard Cosway, 1742–1821
Portrait of a Lady Standing near a Lake
ca. 1802