William Blake: Collection Lists

These Collection Lists are catalogues of the original prints, drawings, and manuscripts by William Blake that can be found at the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Of Blake's 20 original works in illuminated printing, 12 can be found at Yale. Below is a list of all of Blake's illuminated books, with those in Yale collections listed in bold and followed by their location. More comprehensive collection lists - which include commercial book illustrations, engraved prints, drawings, and paintings - can be found under the tabs devoted to each Yale repository on this page.

Illuminated Books

• All Religions are One (1788)

• There is No Natural Religion (1788) at the Yale Center for British Art

• Songs of Innocence (1789) at the Yale Center for British Art and Beinecke

• The Book of Thel (1789) at the Yale Center for British Art and Beinecke

• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

• Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) at the Yale Center for British Art

• For Children: The Gates of Paradise (1793) at the Yale Center for British Art

• America a Prophecy (1793) at the Yale Center for British Art and Beinecke

• Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1793, 1794) at the Yale Center for British Art and Beinecke

• Europe a Prophecy (1794) at the Yale Center for British Art

• The First Book of Urizen (1794) at the Yale Center for British Art and Beinecke

• The Song of Los (1795)

• The Book of Los (1795)

• The Book of Ahania (1795) at Beinecke

• Milton a Poem (1804-1811)

• Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-1820) at the Yale Center for British Art

• For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise (1793, 1820) at the Yale Center for British Art and Beinecke

• On Homer’s Poetry and On Virgil (1822)

• The Ghost of Abel (1822)

• Laocoön (1815, 1826-1827) at the Yale Center for British Art