By Joseph Fletcher, Project Manager

As part of the fourth phase of the William Blake Archive’s development, sponsored by the NEH, we have acquired a multitude of high-resolution digital images of works from 29 institutions. Some of these works are already published in the Archive, and the rest are at various stages in our publication workflow. They are listed below beneath their holding institutions.

Bavarian State Library, Munich

  • Songs of Innocence Z
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion R
  • The Song of Los F

Beinecke Library, Yale

  • Thel E
  • Thel K
  • Songs of Innocence P
  • America K
  • 3 proof plates from The Book of Urizen
  • 3 proof plates from The Book of Ahania
  • 15 receipts
  • 2 objects from A Small Book of Designs B
  • 3 water color drawings
  • 1 monochrome wash drawing
  • 1 pencil sketch
  • 3 letters

Brooklyn Museum

  • “The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun”: water color drawing

Cincinnati Museum of Art

  • Songs of Innocence S
  • The Book of Thel N
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience S

Cleveland Museum of Art

  • 1 water color drawing
  • 1 pencil sketch

Firestone Library, Princeton

  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion L
  • America D
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience U
  • 2 objects from A Small Book of Designs B
  • 2 water color drawings
  • 1 monochrome wash drawing
  • 10 pencil sketches

Fitzwilliam Museum

  • 2 objects from A Small Book of Designs B
  • 2 water color drawings
  • 1 monochrome wash drawing

Houghton Library, Harvard

  • There is No Natural Religion D
  • Songs of Innocence F
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell A
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion D
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion M
  • America C
  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience O
  • Europe C
  • 1 proof plate from America
  • 2 water color drawings
  • 3 monochrome wash drawings
  • 3 pencil sketches
  • 6 letters

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

  • 2 water color drawings
  • 1 letter

Higgins Bedford Art Gallery

  • 2 water color drawings

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

  • “Christ Raising Jairus’ Daughter”: painting

Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • “The Angel Gabriel Appearing to Zacharias”: painting

Minneapolis Institute of Art

  • “Nebuchadnezzar”: large color printed drawing

John Murray Collection, London

  • 1 letter

King’s College, Cambridge

  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience W

National Gallery of Scotland

  • “Hecate”: large color printed drawing
  • 2 water color drawings

British National Trust

  • “Satan Calling Up His Legions”: painting
  • “The Sea of Time and Space”: painting
  • “The Characters in Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’”: painting
  • “The Vision of the Last Judgment”: water color drawing

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

  • “Nimrod or ‘Let Loose the Dogs of War’”: pencil sketch

New York Public Library, Berg Collection

  • Europe F
  • America L
  • The Book of Thel M
  • Songs of Innocence E
  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion K
  • “then she bore Pale desire” and “Woe cried the muse”: manuscript
  • “Upcott’s Autograph Album”: manuscript
  • 1 water color drawing
  • 1 letter

Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • “God Judging Adam”: large color printed drawing
  • “Newton”: large color printed drawing
  • “The Nativity”: painting
  • 8 water color drawings
  • 2 monochrome wash drawings
  • 2 pen and ink drawings
  • 2 proof plates from Europe C
  • 1 proof plate from Jerusalem
  • 1 proof plate from Milton

Pollok House, Glasgow

  • “Sir Jeffery Chaucer and the Nine and Twenty Pilgrims on Their Journey to Canterbury”: painting
  • “Adam Naming the Beasts”: painting
  • “Eve Naming the Birds”: painting
  • “A Vision of the Last Judgment”: water color drawing

Ransom Center, University of Texas

  • Songs of Innocence O
  • 1 proof plate from Urizen
  • 4 monochrome wash drawings
  • 2 pencil sketches
  • 2 letters

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

  • “The Baptism of Christ”: painting
  • 1 water color drawing

Rosenbach Library and Museum

  • Visions of the Daughters of Albion H
  • 1 proof plate from America
  • “The Everlasting Gospel”: manuscript
  • 9 pencil sketches
  • 1 letter

Royal Collection Trust, Windsor

  • “The Assumption of the Virgin”: water color drawing
  • “The Spirit of a Just Man Newly Departed Appearing to His Mourning Family”: monochrome wash drawing
  • “The King of Babylon in Hell”: monochrome wash drawing
  • “Recto and Verso: Two Sketches for ‘Joseph Making Himself Known to His Brethren’”: monochrome wash drawings

Society of Antiquaries, London

  • 4 water color drawings
  • 4 monochrome wash drawings
  • 1 pen and ink drawing
  • 1 pencil sketch

Tate Gallery

  • 8 objects from A Small Book of Designs B
  • 1 water color drawing
  • 1 pen and ink drawing
  • 2 pencil sketches

Westminster City Archives

  • 11 letters
  • 26 receipts
  • 1 monochrome wash drawing

Widener Library, Harvard

  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience I
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