Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British
Title:
Chapter 4 Frontispiece (Plate 76)
Date:
1804 to 1820
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold 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(76)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
men | man | religion | night | sunlight | trees | nudes | nude | crucifixes | religious and mythological subject | literary theme | Jesus Christ/parables
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:
Naomi Billingsley, The visionary art of William Blake: Christianity, Romanticism and the Pictorial Imagination, I.B. Tauris, London ; New York, plate 18, NJ18.B57 B55 2018 (LC) (YCBA)

David Bindman, William Blake's universe, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, London, 2024, p. 25, fig. 9, NJ18 .B57 A12 2024 (YCBA)

Blake Society, Calendar of Events for 2011, 2011, inside backcover, Not Available at Yale
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3510