print;
book
- Museum number
- 1856,0209.357
- Title
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Object: Night
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Series: Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul
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Series: Songs of Innocence
- Description
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Copy T, plate 21: numbered "20" by Blake; 24 lines of verse beginning "The sun descending in the west"; also the word "When", indicating a continuation onto the next page; illustrated with a landscape framed by a tree, r; with several tiny figures, some winged, and 2 birds. 1789
Hand-coloured relief etching printed in a reddish orange ink
- Production date
- 1789
- Dimensions
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Height: 123 millimetres
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Width: 80 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For commentary on "Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience" copy T, see 1856,0209.337.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2000/1 Nov-Feb, London, Tate Britain, 'William Blake'
2001 Mar-Jun, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'William Blake'
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0209.357