File:Blake ancient of days (square crop).jpg

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William Blake: Ancient of Days   (  )
Artist	William Blake  (1757–1827)       Alternative names W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake Description English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator Date of birth/death 28 November 1757  12 August 1827  Location of birth/death London London Work location London; Felpham  Authority file : Q41513 VIAF: 54144439 ISNI: 000000012096135X ULAN: 500012489 LCCN: n78095331 NLA: 35019221 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q41513
Title	Ancient of Days
Description	English: Etching / Watercolour Size: 23.3 x 16.8 cm (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inch) Location: British Museum, London (THIS IS NOT a copy held by Whitworth Institute, Manchester, but sourced from the British Museum – Dmitrismirnov, talk, 11 July 2013)
Date	1794 date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer	http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/blake/ancient.jpg http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/blake/ancient.jpg.html
Permission (Reusing this file)	Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
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Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here:

* 00:45, 11 April 2004 [[:en:User:The Anome|The Anome]] 767×1092 (159,487 bytes)
(William Blake's etching/watercolour "Ancient of Days", public domain, from http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/blake/ancient.jpg)

According to the British Museum website (www.britishmuseum.org ... the ancient of days), the copy they have of The Ancient of Days is a drawing, not an etching with watercolour. They also state that it is not considered to be a work by William Blake

The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, UK, do claim to have the etching / watercolour as part of their collection:

• www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk^{[dead link]}

• www.britishmuseum.org/.../search(william+blake)

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