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Blake, William, 1757–1827
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Edwards, Richard, active 1796–1797
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Young, Edward, 1683–1765
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Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
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Breda, Carl Frederick van, 1759–1818
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Young's Night Thoughts
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18th century
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line engraving
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Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746–1799), abolitionist
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Jesus Christ (7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE)
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Panah, Peter, son of the king of Cape Mesurado (in present-day Liberia)
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Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
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The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)
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The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)
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Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
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The Black Figure in the European Imaginary (Cornell Fine Arts Museum, 2017-01-20 - 2017-05-15)
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Its favours here are trials, not rewards' (Page 12)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the First. On Life, Death and Immortality; Title Page
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'What, though my soul fantastick measures trod' (Page 4)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The present moment terminates our sight' (Page 13)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'O treacherous conscience!' (Page 27)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Like that, the dial speaks; and points to thee' (Page 33)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Love, and love only, is the loan for love' (Page 37)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours' (Page 31)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Teaching, we learn; and giving, we retain' (Page 35)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the Second. On Time, Death and Friendship; Title Page
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Ungrateful, shall we grieve their hovering shades' (Page 55)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Christian Triumph; Title Page
ca. 1797
15
Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'If angels tremble, 'tis at such a sight' (Page 93)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The goddess bursts in thunder and in flame' (Page 95)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Where sense runs savage broke from reason's chain' (Page 46)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'As if the sun could envy, check'd his beam' (Page 49)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'This King of Terrors is the Prince of Peace' (Page 63)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The Sun beheld it – No, the shocking scene' (Page 75)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'And vapid; sense and reason shew the door' (Page 72)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
Night the Third. Narcissa; Title Page
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Till death, that mighty hunter, earths them all' (Page 70)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'When faith is virtue, reason makes it so' (Page 92)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Swift on His Downy Pinion Flies from Woe' (Page 1)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Disease invades the chastest temperence' (Page 10)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Angels should paint it, angels ever there' (Page 40)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The vale of death! that hush'd cimmerian vale' (Page 54)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The thunder if in that the Almighty dwells' (Page 80)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'His hand the good man fastens on the skies' (Page 86)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist' (Page 87)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Till at Death's toll, whose restless iron tongue' (Page 7)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'The longest night though longer far, would fail' (Page 15)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'We censure nature for a span too short' (Page 23)
ca. 1797
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827
'Behold him, when past by; what then is seen' (Page 25)
ca. 1797
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Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840
Tremal Naig's Choultry, Madura
1792
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unknown artist
Content and Discontent
1792
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Jane, Lady Lister
1792
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Thais
1792
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Print made by John Condé, 1765–1794
Mrs. Fitzherbert
1792
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John Chapman, active ca. 1792–1823
Falstaff's Escape - "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act IV, Scene II
1792
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Charles Townley, 1746–c.1800
Dr. Samuel Johnson
1792
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Print made by W. Pyott, active late 18th century
The Benevolent Effects of Abolishing Slavery, or the Planter instructing his Negro
1792