print;
book
- Museum number
- 1953,0101.1.5
- Title
- Series: America: A Prophecy
- Description
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Copy F, plate 7; above, 4 nude figures among clouds: one male carrying another figure, and to the left and r, androgynous figures with scales and sword respectively; below, two nude males contorted and falling among flames, with a central coiled serpent; 7 lines of verse beginning "Albions Angel...". 1793
Relief etching printed in a dark greenish grey ink
Verso: Copy F, plate 8; landscape with vegetation, and a nude male figure sitting framed by clouds, with a skull beside him; 15 lines of verse beginning "The morning comes...". 1793
Relief etching and white-line etching printed in a dark greenish grey ink
- Production date
- 1793
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres (recto)
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Height: 238 millimetres (verso)
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Width: 166 millimetres (recto)
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Width: 167 millimetres (verso)
- Curator's comments
- For commentary on "America: a Prophecy" copy F, see 1953,0101.1.1.
- 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 verso
2007/8 Nov-Jan, Glasgow, Burrell Coll (Sth Bank Tour), Blake verso
2008 Jan-April, Manchester, Whitworth AG (Sth Bank Tour), Blake verso
2018 Feb-April, BM, Room 3, Asahi Shimbun Display, 'A revolutionary legacy: Haiti and Toussaint Louverture'
- Acquisition date
- 1953
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1953,0101.1.5