"The Terror Answered: I am Orc, wreath'd round the accursed tree..." (Plate 10)
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Color-printed relief etching in green-black ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in blue ink upper right: "8"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.2(10)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
clouds | beard | religious and mythological subject | rocks (landforms) | robe | text | night | men | water
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Blake: Visionary (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023-10-17 - 2024-01-14)William Blake - The Artist (Tate Britain, 2019-09-11 - 2020-02-20)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
Publications:
William Blake, Libros profe´ticos, vol. 1, Atalanta, Vilau¨r, Spain, 2013, p. 213, PR4142 .S35 2013Henry Crabb Robinson, Lives of William Blake, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, p. 114, NJ18.B57 A12 2020a (YCBA)He´le`ne Pharabod-Ibata, The Challenge of the Sublime, from Burke's Philosophical Enquiry to British Romantic Art, Manchester University Press, Manchester, p. 178, fig. 9, NX650.S92 P43 2018 (LC) (YCBA)William Blake : Visionary, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, p. 123, pl. 81, NJ18.B57 A12 2020 OVERSIZE (YCBA)William Blake, Tate Publishing, London, p. 72, cat. 47, NJ18.B57 M97 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)