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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soulclick to zoom
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

William Blake
Medium
Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor, ink and shell gold
Dimensions
Each plate approx: 4 7/16 × 2 13/16 in. (11.2 × 7.1 cm) Each sheet approx: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm)
Department
Drawings and Prints
Classification
Prints
Dated
[1789–94] printed ca. 1825
Pixels
3168 × 3710
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William Blake. Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, [1789–94] printed ca. 1825. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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