"Such visions have appeared to me..."; Chapter 2 Frontispiece (Plate 26)
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches (26.4 x 34.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.1(26)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
nudes | gown | text | men | women | flames | literary theme | religious and mythological subject | fire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14)British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13)William Blake (Tate Britain, 2000-11-02 - 2001-02-04)The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
Publications:
Suzy Halimi, La nuit dans l'Angleterre des Lumières, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2008, p. 276, fig. 2, PN56.N5 N855 2008 (YCBA)Matthew Hargraves, William Blake and Paul Mellon : the life of the mind, Open Knowledge Foundation, New York, 2014, [ p. 6 ], fig. 5, V 2557Matthew Hargraves, William Blake and Paul Mellon : the life of the mind, Open Knowledge Foundation, New York, 2014, [ p. 6 ], fig. 5, http://openglam.org/2014/10/07/william-blake-and-paul-mellon-the-life-of-the-mindRobert Hoozee, British vision : observation and imagination in British art, 1750-1950, , Mercatorfonds Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels , Ghent, 2007, p. 348, no. 239, fig. 239, N6767 B78 2007 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)He´le`ne Pharabod-Ibata, The Challenge of the Sublime, from Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art, Manchester University Press, Manchester, p. 246, fig. 27, NX650.S92 P43 2018 (LC) (YCBA)William Blake : Visionary, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, p. 149, pl. 106, NJ18.B57 A12 2020 OVERSIZE (YCBA)