The visual archive
William Blake
Art & illuminated books
Illuminated pages, visionary figures, and Blake’s final designs for Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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Word and image
Blake made books to be seen as well as read.
He wrote, etched, printed, and colored works in which lettering, image, and page form a single design. This growing visual collection places those pages beside independent works and the watercolors he made in response to Dante.
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Sources & reuse
The works shown here are in the public domain. Each enlarged image links to its individual Wikimedia Commons record, where collection information and the source reproduction can be examined. Web copies are resized for this archive; the source records preserve the available originals.