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William Blake
Adam naming the beasts 1802
engraving, touched with brush and ink
15.8 × 13.0 cm (image) 17.2 × 16.1 cm (plate) 25.3 × 20.9 cm (sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2017
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Adam naming the beasts
1802
frontispiece to the preface of Designs to a Series of Ballads by William Hayley, published Chichester, 1802
Medium
engraving, touched with brush and ink
Measurements
15.8 × 13.0 cm (image) 17.2 × 16.1 cm (plate) 25.3 × 20.9 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2017
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Felpham, West Sussex, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bindman 385; Bentley 466.1; Easson & Essick VI.1
Printing/Publishing
printed by William and Catherine Blake, Felpham; published by William Blake, Felpham
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: Their strength, or speed, or vigilance, were giv’n / In aid of our defects. In some are found / Such teachable and apprehensive parts. / That man’s attainments in his own concerns / Match’d with th’expertneſs of the brutes in their / Are oft times vanquish’d and thrown far behind. / Cowpers Task / Book VI.
printed in ink l.c.: Publishd June 1. 1802 by W Blake Felphum
printed in ink l.r.: Blake d & s
Accession Number
2017.43
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings