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William Blake

[British Romantic Writer and Painter and Illustrator, 1757-1827]

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William Blake's Red Dragon paintings: Click here if you're looking for information about the painting that obsessed serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in the movie Red Dragon

 


 
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Original works by William Blake available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
6 works online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
Satan before the Throne of God, from the Book of Job, 1825

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by William Blake

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Satan Exulting over Eve, 1795

William Blake at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
16 works from a 2001 exhibition of the artist's work

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  
5 works online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
Nebuchadnezzar, 1795

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Prints/drawing collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Watercolor collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

William Blake at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
11 works by William Blake

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina

Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia   NEW!
3 works online

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
5 prints online

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)   NEW!
Thou Hast Fulfilled the Judgement of the Wicked, engraving, 1825

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, England
The Adoration of the Kings, 1799

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand   NEW!
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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The Book of Thel

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Visionary head of Solomon

Glencairn Museum, Pennsylvania
Illustration from the Book of Job

Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
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Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope, engraving

Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Job's Sacrifice

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
"A comprehensive website of 176 works online accompanying the [1999] exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria."

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
John Varley, pencil, 1820-25

New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by William Blake online

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
When the Morning Stars Sang Together

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Mirth, illustration to Milton's L'Allegro

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
6 works online

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The British Museum, London, UK   NEW!

The Huntington Library, California
Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell, ca.1806

The Ransom Center at the University of Texas
Design for the First Book of Urizen

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
6 works online

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
The Ancient of Days

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

 
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

 
Professional Tools:
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Pictures from Image Archives:
William Blake in the Art Renewal Center

William Blake in the Artchive  

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Ancient of Days

William Blake at CGFA  

William Blake in the Web Gallery of Art  

William Blake in the WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

William Blake at ArtMagick
Image list is in the column at the right of the page

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Faeries at LaLa's Land

Humanities Web  

Nicola Randone's Grandi Artisti

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Web Sites About the Artist:
Larry Hauser's William Blake Site

The William Blake Archive
Electronic text archive; some excellent reproductions online as well, but you have to dig deep for them

William Blake Digital Text Project
Electronic text archive

William Blake: A Helpfile

 
Other Web Sites:
Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature
Blake's visions of the Apocalypse

Children's Literature Resources at Indiana University

Chrisis: Church of Art

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Shakespeare Illustrated

The British Library, London, UK

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on William Blake
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Spartacus Educational Books

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: A Mystery and Genius, Blake is a Conundrum

  
William Blake: The Ancient of Days (God as an Architect)





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William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
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William Blake: Newton
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William Blake: Jacob's Ladder
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William Blake: The Resurrection
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The Fall of Man
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Divine Comedy: Pity
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"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books:Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.            
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Milton: A Poem


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Jerusalem


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The Urizen Books


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