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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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1792
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Young's Night Thoughts
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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)
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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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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe' (Page 1)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the First. On Life, Death and Immortality; Title Page
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the Second. On Time, Death and Friendship; Title Page
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Christian Triumph; Title Page
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Where sense runs savage broke from reason's chain' (Page 46)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)
ca. 1797