William Blake

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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 MusicBrainz: f095ce11-8664-4489-a55a-8ecdb94d3031 WGA: b/blake Open Library: OL41961A DBNL: blak002 Oxford Dict.: 2585 GND: 118511513 SELIBR: 178705 SUDOC: 026730626 BNF: 118922028 NDL: 00433456 BIBSYS: 90064054 NKC: jn19990000832 SBN: CFIV009777 RSL: 000079496 BNE: XX853571 CiNii: DA00469570 NLP: a0000001178282 KulturNav: 6783280e-d0b9-4fee-b6b3-d453060deed0 RKD: 8824 J9U: 987007258601805171 BNR: 000024297 Koninklijke: 068478070 NLK: KAC199602679 WorldCat

creator QS:P170,Q41513

Portraits

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  Portrait by Thomas Phillips
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  engraving by Luigi Schiavonetti
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  Fac-simile of a Portrait on Ivory. Painted from life by John Linnell 1827. Engraved by C. H. Jeens.
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  From a cast made when he was about fifty years old by Deville the phrenologist

Works

Main gallery: Paintings by William Blake.

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  Ancient of Days (1794)
  British Museum, London
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  Abel
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  Tiriel, Plate 2
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  Christ in the Sepulchre, Guarded by Angels
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  Elohim Creating Adam (Und Elohim erschuf Adam)
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  Satan inflicted boils on Job ("Satan schüttet die Plagen über Hiob aus")
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  Hekate
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  Jacob's Ladder
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  Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (Erzengel Raphael mit Adam und Eva)
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  The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun (Der große Rote Drache und die Frau, mit der Sonne bekleidet
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  The Ghost of a Flea (Das Gespenst eines Flohs)
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  Europe, supported by Africa and America ("Europa, gestützt von Afrika und Amerika")
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  Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave
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  A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows
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  Malevolence 1799
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  Naomi entreating Ruth and Orpah to return to the land of Moab, 1795
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  To the accuser
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  Proverbs of Hell (p.1)
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  Joseph of Arimathea - Among the Rocks of Albion
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  Nebuchadnezzar (Nebukadnezar)
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  Lot and His Daughters, c. 1799-1800

The Divine Comedy

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  Inferno, Canto I, 1-90 Dante running from three beasts is rescued by Virgil
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  Inferno, Canto II, 139-141, Dante and Virgil enter the wood
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  Inferno, Canto III, 1-10, Dante and Virgil enter Hell
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  Inferno, Canto IV, 89-95, Homer and the ancient poets
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  Inferno, Canto V, 37-138, The Whirlwind of Lovers; Francesca da Rimini
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  Inferno, Canto VI, 12-35, Cerberus
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  Inferno, Canto VII, 110-127, The Stygian Lake with angry sinners fighting.
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  Inferno, Canto VIII, 30-64, Virgil repelling Filippo Argenti from the Boat
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  Inferno, Canto IX, 44-64, The Angel an the Gate of Dis
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  Inferno, Canto X, 23-70, Dante conversing with Farinata Degli Uberti.
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  Inferno, Canto XI, 1-15, Scheme of the Circles of Hell
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  Inferno, Canto XII, 12-28, The Minotaur (Seventh Circle)
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  Inferno, Canto XIII, 1-45, The Wood of Self-Violators: The Harpies and the Suicides
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  Inferno, Canto XIV, 46-72, Capaneus the Blasphemer
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  Inferno, Canto XIX, 42-120,

  Deutsch: Der simonistische Papst

  English: The simoniac Pope
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  Inferno, Canto XXIV,

  Deutsch: Diebe

  English: Thieves
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  Inferno, Canto XXV, 12-33, Centaur Cacus Threatens Vanni Fucci
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  Inferno, Canto XXVI, 44-71, Ulisses & Diomedes wrapped in the same flame
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  Inferno, Canto XXXI, Antaeus sets down Dante and Virgil in the 9th circle
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  Inferno, Canto XXXIII, 13-93, Count Ugolino and his sons in prision
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  Inferno, Canto XXXIV, 22-64, Lucifer at the last section of the nineth circle
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  Purgatory, Canto IX, Dante and Virgil before the Angelic Guardian of the Gate of Purgatory
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  Purgatorio, Canto XXX, 60-146

  Deutsch: Beatrice spricht zu Dante

  English: Beatrice Addressing Dante
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  Purgatorio, Canto XXX, 60-146

  Deutsch: Beatrice spricht zu Dante

  English: Beatrice Addressing Dante

Songs of Innocence and Experience

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  p.1, Songs Cover
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  p.2, Innocence_Frontispiece
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  p.3 Title page of Songs of Innocence (Cambridge copy)
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  p.4, Innocence Intro
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  p.5, The Shepherd
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  p.6, The Echoing Green (a)
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  p.7, The Echoing Green (b)
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  p.8, The Lamb (color)
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  p.8, The Lamb (black & white)
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  p.9, The Little Black Boy
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  p.11, The Blossom
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  p.12, The Chimney Sweeper (1789)
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  p.13, The Little Boy lost
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  p.14, The Little Boy found
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  p.15, Laughing Song
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  p.16, A Cradle Song (a)
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  p.17, A Cradle Song (b)
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  p.18, The Divine Image (1789)
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  p.19, Holy Thursday from copy F
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  p.20, Night
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  p.22, Spring (a) (Cambridge copy)
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  p.23, Spring (b) (Cam)
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  p.24, Nurse's Song (Cam)
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  p.25, Infant Joy (Cam)
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  p.26, Dream (Camb)
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  p.27, On Another's Sorrow (Cam)
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  p.28, Experience frontispiece (Cam)
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  p.29, Experience Title-page (Cam)
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  p.30, Introduction (Cam)
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  p.31, Earth's Answer (Cam)
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  p.32, The Clod & the Pebble (Cam)
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  p.33, Holy Thursday (1784, Cam)
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  p.34, The Little Girl Lost (Cam)
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  p.35 The Little Girl Found (a, Cam)
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  p.36 The Little Girl Found (b, Cam)
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  p.45, The Little Vagabond (Cam)
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  p.37, The Chimney Sweeper
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  p.38, Nurse's Song (Cam)
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  p. 39, The Sick Rose
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  p.40, The Fly
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  p.41, The Angel (Cam)
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  p.42, The Tyger
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  p.43, My Pretty Roses, Sun-Flower, Lilly(Cam)
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  p.44, The Garden of Love
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  p.44, The Garden of Love
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  p.46, London
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  p.47 The Human Abstract (Cam)
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  p.48, Infant Sorrow (Cam)
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  p.49, A Poison Tree
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  p.50, A Little Boy Lost (Cam)
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  p.51, A Little Girl Lost (Cam)
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  p.52, To Tirzah (Cambridge copy)
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  p.53, The Schoolboy (Cambridge copy)
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  p.54 The Voice of the Ancient Bard (Cambridge copy)

Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion

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  Plate 1
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  Plate 2
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  Plate 3
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  Plate 4
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  Plate 6
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  Plate 13
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  Plate 14
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  Plate 15
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  Plate 16
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  Plate 17
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  Plate 18
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  Plate 19
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  Plate 20
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  Plate 21
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  Plate 22
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  Plate 23
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  Plate 24
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  Plate 25
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  Plate 26
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  Plate 27. To the Jews
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  Plate 35
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  Plate 54
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  Plate 77, To the Christians
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  Plate 100

Photographs

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  Memorial in London
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  Gravestone