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William Blake, The Ancient of Days, 1794, relief etching with hand coloring, Plate from Europe a Prophecy, copy K, in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University As conventionally ...

“The Ancient of Days,” from "Europe a Prophecy," printed 1795, William Blake (British, 1757–1827), color-printed relief etching in dark brown with pen and black ink, oil, and watercolor ...

What’s the use of William ... did those feet in ancient times…” which was turned into an Anglican hymn and misrepresented as an homage to Merry Old England. The reason Blake’s works ...

A champion of the imagination, William Blake is celebrated in a new retrospective ... A Prophecy. His so-called Ancient of Days depicts a suspended deity, enthroned in a celestial orb and ...

The biggest ever exhibition of the works of the British artist, poet and radical William Blake ... of Heaven and Hell is plate 14. Blake tells us, “The ancient tradition that the world will ...

The life of William Blake was a relatively sedentary one ... To look at one of Blake's greatest paintings, such as The Ancient of Days (1794), is to recognise to what extent he was out of key ...

We all know William Blake, right? Last week ... Godlike figure of The Ancient Of Days measuring the earth — the best work, Blake said, he ever finished, or The Dance Of Albion, a joyfully ...