William Blake: Yale Center for British Art

• There is No Natural Religion, copy B. Call Number: B1992.2.15 (1-11) 

• The Book of Thel, copy B. Call Number: B1992.8.3 (1-8) 

• Songs of Innocence, copy G. Call Number: B1992.8.12 (1-17) 

• The Book of Thel, copy R. Call Number: B1978.43.1334-134 

• For Children: The Gates of Paradise, copy E. Call Number: B1978.43.1484-1501 

• Visions of the Daughters of Albion, copy I. Call Number: B1978.43.1580-1585 

• America a Prophecy, copy M. Call Number: B1992.8.2 (1-18) 

• Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, copy F. Call Number: B1978.43.1546-1549 

• Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L. Call Number: B1992.8.13 (1-54) 

• Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Plate 5. Design only, color printed. Call Number: B1978.1.2 

• Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Plate 22. Design only, color printed. Call Number: B1978.1.1 

• Europe a Prophecy, copy A. Call Number: B1992.8.4 (1-7) 

• Europe a Prophecy. Plate 1. See Jerusalem, plate 30, below. 

• The First Book of Urizen, copy A. Call Number: B1992.8.5 (1-28) 

• The First Book of Urizen, copy C. Call Number: B1978.43.1419-1444 

• For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, copy G. Call Number: B1992.8.6 (1-20) 

• Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion, copy E. Call Number: B1992.8.1 (1-100) 

• Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion. Plate 28 (recto); plate 35 (verso). Proof impressions on one sheet. Call Number: B1992-8.1 (105) 

• Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion. Plate 30 (recto); Europe plate 1 (verso). Proof impression of the Jerusalem plate.  Call Number: B1992-8.1 (106)

Designed and Engraved by Blake 

• Hayley, William. Ballads. 1805. Call Number: B1978.8(a-e) 

• Virgil. The Pastorals of Virgil. 1821. Call Number: B1978.43.1720-1721 

• Virgil. The Wood Engravings of William Blake. 1977. Call Number: B1978.43.1586-1602 

• Young, Edward. The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts, copy N.  1797. Hand colored copy. Call Number: B1992.8.10(1-41) 

• Young, Edward. The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts, copy Q.  1797. Hand colored copy. Call Number: B1978.43.1380-1417 

• Young, Edward. The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts. 1797. Call Number: B1978.43.1342-1379

Designed by Blake and Engraved by Other Engravers

• Blair, Robert. The Grave. 1808. 2 copies.  Call Number: B1978.43.1445-1457;1458-1470 

• Blair, Robert. The Grave. 1808. Call Number: B1978.43.1471-1483 

• Malkin, Benjamin Heath. A Father's Memoirs of His Child. 1806. Call Number:  B1978.43.1691-1693 

• Whitaker, John. The Seraph, a Collection of Sacred Music. 1818. Call Number: M2136/S43/1818 

Engraved by Blake after Designs by Other Artists

• Cumberland, George. Thoughts on Outline. 1796. 2 copies. Call Numbers: B1978.43.1603-1626 and 1627-1649 

• Emlyn, Henry. A Proposition for a New Order in Architecture. 1781. Call Number: L 15.3 (fo) 

• Fuseli, Henry. Lectures on Painting. 1801. 2 copies. Call Numbers: ND1150/+F9 

• Gay, John. Fables. 1793. Call Number: B1982.22.1-2 

• Gough, Richard. Sepulchral Monuments, in Great Britain. 1786. Call Number: Folio A/N/130 

• Hayley, William. An Essay on Sculpture. 1800. Call Number: B1978.43.1650-1652  

• Hayley, William. The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper. 1803-04. 1^st edition.  Call Number: B1978.43.1653-1672 

• Hayley, William. The Life of George Romney. 1809. Call Number: B1978.43.1673-1684 

• Hayley, William. The Triumphs of Temper. 1803. Call Number: B1978.43.1685-1690 

• Lavater, Johann Caspar. Essays on Physiognomy. 1810. Call Number: L150.12 (4) 

• The Monthly Magazine and British Register, Vol. 4.  1797. Call Number: Serials (8o) 17 

• Ritson, Joseph. A Select Collection of English Songs. 1783. Call Number: B1978.43.1694-1709 

• Stedman, John Gabriel. Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. 1796. 2 copies.  Call Numbers: F2410/+S81/1796 

• Stuart, James, and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens. 1794. Call Number: T.127.6 (fo) 

• Vetusta Monumenta. 1780. Call Number: B1977.14.16519-16522, 16524, 16526, 16528 

Plates Designed and Engraved by Blake

• Blake's Illustrations of Dante. Call Number: B1992.8.9 (1-7) 

• “Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims”. 3^nd state. Call Number: B1977.14.11092

• Illustrations to the Book of Job. 1^st printing on laid India. Call Number: B1978.43.1524-1542 

• Illustrations to the Book of Job. 1^st printing directly on Whatman paper. Call Number: B1978.43.1502-1523 

• “The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour”.2^nd state. Call Number: B1981.25.769 

Plates Engraved by Blake after Designs by Other Artists

• “Beggar's Opera, Act III”. Call Number: B1978.43.911 

• “Rev. John Caspar Lavater”. 3^nd state. Call Number: B1970.3.484 

Color Printed Drawings

• “Pity”. Call Number: B1977.14.6321 

• “Christ Appearing to the Apostles after the Resurrection”. Call Number: B1979.12.1039 

Pencil Sketches

• Albion Compelling the Four Zoas to Their Proper Tasks. Call Number: B1979.12.718 

• Copy of the Laocoön, for Rees's Cyclopaedia. Call Number: B1985.14 

• A Destroying Deity, Study for. Call Number: B1977.14.6079 

• Five Visionary Heads of Women. Call Number: B1975.4.1025 

• The Gambols of Ghosts According with Their Affections Previous to the Final Judgment. Call Number: B1978.18 

• Landscape With a Spire. Call Number: B1977.14.4923 

• Socrates. Call Number: B1975.4.42 

• A Visionary Head (recto);  Elevation and Plan of a Monument (verso).  Call Number: B1975.4.43 

Monochrome Wash Drawings

• Moses Receiving the Law. Call Number: B1975.4.1883 

• Satan Approaching the Court of Chaos. Call Number: B1975.4.1459 

• Thomas Alphonso Hayley. Call Number: B1979.12.741 

• Tiriel Supporting the Dying Myratana and Cursing His Sons. Call Number: B1977.14.4150 

• The Widow Embracing Her Husband's Grave. Call Number: B1975.4.1026 

Water Color Drawings

• An Angel with a Trumpet. Call Number: B1975.4.44 

• The Entrance Front of Hayley's House at Eartham. Call Number: B1981.25.2396 

• Gray's Poems, illustrations to. 116 designs.  Call Number: B1992.8.11 (1-58) 

• Joseph and Potiphar's Wife. Call Number: B1977.14.4309 

• Mary Magdalen at the Sepulchre. Call Number: B1975.4.1794 

• The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins. Call Number: B1977.14.6102 

• Sealing the Stone and Setting A Watch. Call Number: B1979.12.703 

• A Woody Landscape. Call Number: B1977.14.4923 

Paintings

• Abraham and Isaac. Call Number: B1977.14.89 

• Christ Giving Sight to Bartimaeus. Call Number: B1977.14.90 

• The Horse. From William Hayley's Ballads.  Call Number: B2001.2.34

• The Virgin and Child (The Black Madonna). Call Number: B1977.14.91

• A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures, copy J.  Call Number: B1978.43.1418 

• Anonymous. Songs of Innocence and of Experience. 19th century hand-drawn facsimile, after William Blake.  Call Number: B1992.8.14 (1-54) 

• Flaxman, John. Portrait of William Blake. Call Number: B1992.8.11(117) 

• Linnell, John and his circle, after William Blake. Illustrations of the Book of Job. The New Zealand Set.  Call Number: B1992.8.7 (1-22) 

• Richmond, George, after Frederick Tatham. Portrait of Catherine Blake. Call Number: B1992.8.1(102) 

• Richmond, George, after Frederick Tatham. William Blake in Youth and Age. Call Number: B1992.8.1(101) 

• Tatham, Frederick. Life of Blake. Manuscript. Call Number: B1992.8.16

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