Songs of Experience: The Voice of the Ancient Bard, William Blake

Songs of Experience: The Voice of the Ancient Bard

William Blake (British) (1757-1827)

Movement: Romanticism
Date: 1789
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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Barde Old man Beard Harp Crowd Man Woman Title Blue Pink Music Lettering Writing Poem Print Engraving Watercolor Ornament Beige Gold Soft colors Inscription Figure

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There Is No Natural Religion; Frontispiece, plate 1

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There Is No Natural Religion, plate 10: I. "Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 10: I. "Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 11: II. "Reason or the ratio of all we have already known..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 11: II. "Reason or the ratio of all we have already known..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 2: The Argument. "Man has no notion of moral fitness..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 2: The Argument. "Man has no notion of moral fitness..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 3: I. "Man cannot naturally Percieve..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 3: I. "Man cannot naturally Percieve..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 4: II. "Man by his reasoning power can only compare..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 4: II. "Man by his reasoning power can only compare..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 5: III. "From a perception of only 3 senses..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 5: III. "From a perception of only 3 senses..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 6: IV. "None could have other than natural or organic thoughts..."

There Is No Natural Religion, plate 6: IV. "None could have other than natural or organic thoughts..."