William BLAKE

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

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2017
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Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

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)

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) 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 Publishd June 1. 1802 by W Blake Felphum
printed in ink Blake d & s

Accession Number

2017.43

Departments

International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2017

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Gallery location

Not on display

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William BLAKE

Adam naming the beasts
1802
frontispiece to the preface of Designs to a Series of Ballads by William Hayley, published Chichester, 1802