print;
book
- Museum number
- 1953,0101.1.3
- Title
- Series: America: A Prophecy
- Description
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Copy F, plate 3: "Preludium"; 4 nude figures, including Orc and the daughter of Urthona; a tree with trunk and roots filling the left margin, its branches framing the design at the top; a coil at the bottom margin, perhaps a serpent; 20 lines of verse beginning "The shadowy daughter of Urthona..."; text decorated with vegetation. 1793
Relief etching printed in a dark greenish grey ink
Verso: Copy F, plate 4; 17 lines of verse beginning "Silent as despairing love..."; text decorated with vegetation; below, nude male figure climbing out of the earth, with roots; a twisting vine climbing up the left margin. 1793
Relief etching printed in a dark greenish grey ink
- Production date
- 1793
- Dimensions
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Height: 252 millimetres (recto)
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Height: 200 millimetres (verso)
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Width: 165 millimetres (recto)
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Width: 159 millimetres (verso)
- Curator's comments
- For commentary on "America: a Prophecy" copy F, see 1953,0101.1.1.
On some impressions of plate 4, there are an extra 4 lines of verse at the bottom.
- 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'
2007 April-May, Hull, Ferens AG (Sth Bank Tour), Blake recto
2007/8 Nov-Jan, Glasgow, Burrell Coll (Sth Bank Tour), Blake recto
2008 Jan-April, Manchester, Whitworth AG (Sth Bank Tour), Blake recto
- Acquisition date
- 1953
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1953,0101.1.3