William Blake

In October 2018 I went to an exhibition on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein at the Morgan Library in New York. The exhibition included a print by William Blake and illustrations he did for works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Here are the pictures I took of them:


Frontispiece to Blake's Europe, A Prophecy, showing the white-bearded Urizen, and known as "The Ancient of Days." This was done in 1794, the same year Mireille meets Blake in The Eight.



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Blake's illustrations for works of Mary Wollstonecraft. These were done in 1796. By the way, Wollstonecraft dedicated A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Talleyrand.






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