"His Spectre driv'n by the Starry Wheels of Albions sons..." (Plate 6)
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: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.1(6)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
men | text | stone | smoke | chain | wings | nudes | hammer | bellows | tongs | blacksmith | religious and mythological subject | literary theme | fire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)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:
Corrine Saunders, Madness and creativity in literature and culture, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, 2005, pp.128, 129, pl. 1, PR149.P78 M33 2005 (YCBA)