- Title:
- "In living creations appear'd..." (Plate 8)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm), Plate: 5 7/8 x 4 1/8 inches (14.9 x 10.5 cm), Spine: 10 1/4 inches (26 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite upper right: "8"; in red ink upper right: "[ . . . ]"
Lettered inside image, left: "In living creations appear'd | In the flames of eternal fury. | 3. Sund'ring. dark'ning. thund'ring! | Rent away with a terrible crash | Eternity roll'd wide apart | Wide asunder rolling | Mountainous all around | Departing; departing: departing, | Leaving ruinous fragments of life | Hanging frowning cliffs & all between | An ocean of voidness unfathomable, | 4. The roaring fires ran o'er the heav'ns | In whirlwinds & cataracts of blood | And o'er the dark desarts of Urizen | Fires pour thro' the void on all sides | 5. But no light from the fires, all was | darkness | In the flames of Eternal fury | 6. In fierce anguish & quenchless, | flames"; right: "-ging | To the desarts and rocks He ran ra- | To hide, but He could not; combining | He dug mountains & hills in vast strength | He piled them in incessant labour, | In howlings & pangs & fierce madness | Long periods in burning fires labouring | Till hoary, and age-broke, and aged. | In despair and the shadows of death. | 7. And a roof vast petrific around, | On all sides He fram'd; like a womb | Where thousands of rivers in veins | Of blood pour down the mountains to cool | The eternal fires beating without | From Eternals; & like a black globe | View'd by sons of Eternity, standing | On the shore of the infinite ocean | Like a human heart strugling & beating | The vast world of Urizen appear'd. | 8. And Los round the dark globe of | Urizen, | Kept watch for Eternals to confine. | The obscure separation alone: | For Eternity stood wide apart,"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.5(8)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beard | book | fire | flames | leaf | literary theme | men | religious and mythological subject | text | vines
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3923
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William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
William Blake, Libros profe´ticos, vol. 1, Atalanta, Vilau¨r, Spain, 2013, p. 288, PR4142 .S35 2013 [ORBIS]
He´le`ne Pharabod-Ibata, The Challenge of the Sublime, from Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art, Manchester University Press, Manchester, p. 250, fig. 28, NX650.S92 P43 2018 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]