William BLAKE
Los, Enitharmon and Orc
(c. 1795)
plate 21 from The First Book of Urizen, 1794, re-issued as part of The Large Book of Designs, copy B

Medium
colour relief etching printed in opaque pigments, and finished with watercolour and pen and ink

Measurements
16.6 × 10.2 cm (image and plate) 25.4 × 18.5 cm (border) 31.4 × 25.1 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bentley 38.21, pp. 178, 184; Bindman 317; Butlin 281; Butlin & Gott 43

Accession Number
1027-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Human Figures Literary and Text Religion and Mythology

Subjects (specific)
chains (object genres) embracing illustrations (layout features) literary characters men (male humans) nudes (representations) poems women (female humans)

Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles)