print;
book
- Museum number
- 1924,0726.1.8
- Title
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Object: The Little Black Boy
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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 A, plate 8: numbered "6" by Blake; landscape with rising sun, tree framing the image from the left; below the tree a gowned female figure, her torso nude, sitting with an infant, his left arm raised; both figures black; below, 16 lines of verse beginning "My mother bore me in the southern wild"; also the word "For", indicating a continuation onto the next page. 1789
Colour relief etching in olive-brown and black, with hand colouring
- Production date
- 1789
- Dimensions
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Height: 108 millimetres
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Width: 68 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For commentary on "Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience" copy A, see 1924,0726.1.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007 April-Oct, London, Tate Britain, '1807: Blake, Slavery and the Radical Mind'
- Acquisition date
- 1924
- Acquisition notes
- For acquisition notes see 1924,0726.1.1.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1924,0726.1.8