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Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract, William Blake

Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract

William Blake (British) (1757-1827)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1794
Medium
Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink, hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold
Dimensions
15.7 × 14.1 cm (sheet)
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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