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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: Combined Title-page, William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: Combined Title-page

William Blake (British) (1757-1827)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1789–1794
Medium
Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink, hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold
Dimensions
11.2 × 7.1 cm
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

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