Note: Plate numbers from Blake’s illuminated books, as given here, are those in the particular copies being reproduced. They correspond with the “object” numbers in the Blake Archive but often differ from the sequence of plates in David Erdman’s text.
Frontispiece: Map by Bill Nelson.
1. Gravure, en taille-douce, en manière noire, etc. (Paris, 1767). Houghton Library, Harvard University, f Typ 715.67.435.
2. Etching by Thomas Stothard. Collection of Robert N. Essick. Used with permission.
3. Democritus. Illustration from Johann Caspar Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind (London, 1789). Houghton Library, Harvard University, HOU F Typ 705.89.513 (A).
4. Sense Runs Wild. Illustration for Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, page 46. Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
5. Catherine Blake, by William Blake. © Tate, London 2014.
6. William Blake, engraving after a painting by Thomas Phillips. Frontispiece to Robert Blair, The Grave (London, 1808). Houghton Library, Harvard University, HEW 1.13.5.
7. William Blake, probable self-portrait. Collection of Robert N. Essick. Used with permission.
8. The Man Who Taught Blake Painting. © Tate, London 2014.
9. America: A Prophecy. Fragment of the original copperplate for plate 3. By permission of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
10. America: A Prophecy, copy E, plate 3. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
11. A rolling press. Illustration from Abraham Bosse, De la manière de graver à l’eau forte et au burin (Paris, 1758). Houghton Library, Harvard University, HOU GEN Typ 715.58.230.
12. Father Thames. Illustration for Thomas Gray’s Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Yale Center for British Art.
13. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, plate 1. Yale Center for British Art.
14. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, plate 24. Yale Center for British Art.
15. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, plate 30. Yale Center for British Art.
16. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, plate 29. Yale Center for British Art.
17. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, plate 39. Yale Center for British Art.
18. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, plate 32. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
19. Manuscript page from Blake’s notebook. Copyright © The British Library Board, Add. MS 49,460, f. 56.
20. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, plate 41. Yale Center for British Art.
21. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy N, plate 21. Reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
22. Albion Rose (Glad Day), second state. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress.
23. Paris boutique. Photo by Leo Damrosch.
24. America: A Prophecy, copy E, plate 4. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
25. America: A Prophecy, copy E, plate 8. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
26. America: A Prophecy, copy E, plate 12. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
27. America: A Prophecy, copy E, plate 10. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
28. America: A Prophecy, copy E, plate 13. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
29. Newton. Sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi. Photo by Leo Damrosch.
30. Blake’s cottage at Felpham. By kind permission of Jackson Stops and Staff.
31. No. 23 Hercules Buildings. Etching by Frederick Adcock. From Arthur S. Adcock, Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London (London: Dent, 1912).
32. The Whirlwind: Ezekiel’s Vision. Pen and watercolor. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
33. Milton, copy C, plate 1. New York Public Library.
34. Milton, copy C, plate 31. New York Public Library.
35. Milton, copy C, plate 36. New York Public Library.
36. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 1. Yale Center for British Art.
37. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 100. Yale Center for British Art.
38. Avebury. Illustration from William Stukeley, Abury, a Temple of the British Druids (London, 1743). Houghton Library, Harvard University, F Arc 855.214.
39. Manuscript page from Vala, page 86. Copyright © The British Library Board, Add. MS 39764, f. 48v.
40. For Children: The Gates of Paradise, copy D, plate 1. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
41. For Children: The Gates of Paradise, copy D, plate 3. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
42. For Children: The Gates of Paradise, copy D, plate 18. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
43. Manuscript page from Vala, page 26. Copyright © The British Library Board, Add. MS 39764, f. 48v.
44. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 32. Yale Center for British Art.
45. Wisdom. Sculpture by Lee Lawrie, GE Building, Rockefeller Center, New York. Photo by David Damrosch.
46. The Book of Urizen, copy G, plate 1. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
47. The Book of Urizen, copy G, plate 11. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
48. Boreas. Engraving by James Basire. Illustration from James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, vol. 1 (London, 1762). Houghton Library, Harvard University, HOU GEN Arc705.5*.
49. The Book of Job, plate 11, “Job’s Evil Dreams.” Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
50. For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, copy D, plate 21. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. PML 63936. Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2014.
51. No. 17 South Molton Street. Etching by Frederick Adcock. From Arthur S. Adcock, Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London (London: Dent, 1912).
52. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 3. Yale Center for British Art.
53. Life mask of William Blake. Copyright © Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists: Photographic Portraits from before Photography (Stockport, England: Dewi Lewis, 2008).
54. William Blake, pencil sketch by John Linnell. © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
55. For Children: The Gates of Paradise, copy D, plate 16. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
56. Deaths Door (1805). Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
Note: plate numbers from Blake’s illuminated books, as given here, are those in the particular copies being reproduced. They correspond with the “object” numbers in the Blake Archive but often differ from the sequence of plates in David Erdman’s text.
1. Pity. © Tate, London 2014.
2. A Sunshine Holiday. Illustration for John Milton’s L’Allegro. The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1949.4:4. Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows with the special support of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne and Mr. Paul Mellon.
3. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, plate 3. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
4. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, plate 25. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
5. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, plate 11. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
6. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, plate 12. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
7. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy C, plate 2. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
8. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, plate 39. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
9. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy F, plate 42. Yale Center for British Art.
10. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy Z, plate 42. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
11. Albion Rose. Reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
12. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, copy D, plate 1. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
13. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, copy D, plate 21. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
14. America: A Prophecy, copy M, plate 3. Yale Center for British Art.
15. Europe: A Prophecy, copy E, plate 2. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
16. America: A Prophecy, copy M, plate 9. Yale Center for British Art.
17. Europe: A Prophecy, copy A, plate 10. Yale Center for British Art.
18. Newton. © Tate, London 2014.
19. Hyperion, illustration to Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy. Yale Center for British Art.
20. Milton, copy D, plate 16. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
21. The Book of Urizen, copy A, plate 14. Yale Center for British Art.
22. The Book of Urizen, copy F, plate 17. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
23. The Song of Los, copy E, plate 4. Reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
24. Milton, copy D, plate 47. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
25. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 6. Yale Center for British Art.
26. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 70. Yale Center for British Art.
27. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy G, plate 3. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
28. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy G, plate 6. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
29. Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts / Bridgeman Art Library.
30. Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy G, plate 2. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
31. Satan Watching the Caresses of Adam and Eve. Pen and watercolor. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
32. The Book of Urizen, copy C, plate 18. Yale Center for British Art.
33. Milton, copy C, plate 39. New York Public Library.
34. Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car. © Tate, London 2014.
35. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 2. Yale Center for British Art.
36. The Ancient of Days: Europe: A Prophecy, copy E, plate 1. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright © 2014 William Blake Archive. Used with permission.
37. The Book of Urizen, copy F, plate 5. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
38. Elohim Creating Adam. © Tate, London 2014.
39. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 76. Yale Center for British Art.
40. Jerusalem, copy E, plate 99. Yale Center for British Art.