Ballads
William Hayley (author) and William Blake (artist) · 1805 · bound volume with text and 5 etchings with engraving on wove paper
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About this picture
Ballads is a public-domain illustration by William Hayley (author) and William Blake (artist), dated 1805. Bound volume with text and 5 etchings with engraving on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Ballads” (1805) belongs with Blake’s printed visions. He usually etched the plate himself and often printed it in small numbers for his own books.
About the artist
William Blake (1757–1827) was an English poet and printmaker. In his illuminated books he wrote the text and etched the pictures himself. The images are visions, not records of a place.
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