11 x 7 cm. (4.3 x 2.8 in.) Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. [London:] The Author & Printer W Blake, 1789, 1794 [but 1795] 54 relief-etched ...

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A rare book of poetry and artwork by William Blake sold for a sky-high US$4.3 million on Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York, setting a world record for the English literary figure, according to the ...

A show at the Getty Museum examines the British writer, painter and printmaker, who aspired in his work to achieve the mythical. Dominic Green ...

William Blake’s twin talents came from a singular genius. The entrancing paintings and engravings that make up his great art comprise the biblical and the phantasmagorical: shimmering angels and ...

Last week, a library in Manchester announced an incredible find: the institution holds hundreds of engravings by poet and artist William Blake that it didn't know it had. Last week, a library in ...

William Blake, "Albion rose" (“Glad Day” or “The Dance of Albion”) (1794–96), Engraving and etching, colour printed with hand colouring on paper (© The Trustees of the British Museum) CAMBRIDGE, ...

William Blake’s drawings, paintings, prints and illustrations are heavenly, cosmic, spiritual, mind-expanding and consciousness-raising. What they aren’t is large. The Yale Center for British Art, ...