Songs of Experience: The School Boy, William Blake

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Rogers Fund, 1917
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CC0-1.0
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Songs of Experience: The School Boy, William Blake
Songs of Experience: The School Boy — William Blake[1789] printed ca. 1825

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Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost, William Blake
Songs of Experience: The Little Girl LostWilliam Blake[1789] printed ca. 1825Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost (second plate); The Little Girl Found, William Blake
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Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost, William Blake
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Songs of Experience: To Tirzah, William Blake
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Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly, William Blake
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Within fifty years of [1789] printed ca. 1825

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DÉCORATION DU SALON COMPOSÉ DE TRANSPARENTS. Qui a eté élevé sur deux batteaux placés sur la Seine le 29 Aoust 1739, jour de l’illumination et des Feux d’Artifice ordonnez par Monsieur Turgot Prevôt des Marchand et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris, Exécutée sur les desseins du Chevalier Servandony, et rempli par les Musiciens qui ont Conserté devant leurs Majestez, aussitost qu’elle ont été placées sur le Trône qui leur avoit été dressé au pavillon du Jardin de l’Infante, vis-à-vis du quel étoit ce Salon, François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754
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Songs of Experience: A Little Boy Lost, William Blake
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Songs of Experience: Earth's Answer, William Blake
Songs of Experience: Earth's AnswerWilliam Blake[1794] printed ca. 1825Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate), William Blake
Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate)William Blake[1789] printed ca. 1825Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract, William Blake
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Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost (second plate); The Little Girl Found, William Blake
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Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly, William Blake
Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The LillyWilliam Blake[1794] printed ca. 1825Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Songs of Experience: To Tirzah, William Blake
Songs of Experience: To TirzahWilliam Blake[1794] printed ca. 1825Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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The Socratic Chimpanzee and the Shadow Baboon, Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924
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  1. The Bases of Design · Walter Crane

    At the end of last century a sort of revival took place under Thomas Bewick and his school, which led, not to a revival of the firm and open linear drawing of the designers of the early printers, but rather to a search after extra fineness and qualities of tone and colour, hitherto associated with steel or copper-plate. This tendency or aim of the engravers, however, only served to put the woodcut out of relation with the type, and the type itself grew uglier, and was hardly considered as part
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  2. Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New · Walter Crane

    When he came to embody his own thoughts and dreams, he recurred quite spontaneously to the methods of the maker of the MS. books. He became his own calligrapher, illuminator and miniaturist, while availing himself of the copper-plate (which he turned into a surface printing block) and the printing press for the reproduction of his designs, and in some cases for producing them in tints. His hand-coloured drawings, the borderings and devices to his own poems, will always be things by themselves. His treatment of the resources of black and
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