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William Blake Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by William Blake available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
7 works from the museum's prints and drawings collection
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
5 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawing collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
3 works online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Thou Hast Fulfilled the Judgement of the Wicked, engraving, 1825
Brighton & Hove Museums, England
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
The Book of Thel
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Visionary head of Solomon
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Owen Glendower
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Note that the JPG image is displayed smaller than its actual size
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope, engraving
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Nebuchadnezzar, 1795
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
John Varley, pencil, 1820-25
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2 works online
Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
William Blake at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
The Ransom Center at the University of Texas
Design for the First Book of Urizen
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Search results for "William Blake"
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils (Tate Britain, London)
Google Art Project
The Ghost of a Flea (Tate Britain, London)
Liam's Pictures from Old Books 
Illustrations from The First Book of Urizen
William Blake at The Art Renewal Center
William Blake at The Artchive
William Blake in the Web Gallery of Art
William Blake in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
William Blake at ArtMagick
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
William Blake at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Faeries at LaLa's Land
Free Christ Images
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Nicola Randone's Grandi Artisti
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
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
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
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Shakespeare Illustrated
The British Library, London, UK
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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 London Evening Standard
"The tiger touched by angels", 2000 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"William Blake the bleak", 2009 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer
"A Mystery and Genius, Blake is a Conundrum", article by Hilton Kramer
The Village Voice
"Blake Brings Heaven and Hell to the Met", 2001 article by Jerry Saltz
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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