Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy N, 1795 (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery) object 23 Holy Thursday
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy N, 1795 (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery) object 23 Holy Thursday
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases: a few first copies were printed and illuminated by Blake himself in 1789; five years later, he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. Blake was also a painter before the creation of Songs of Innocence and Experience and had painted such subjects as Oberon, Titania, and Puck dancing with fairies
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Date
1795
Source
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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public domain