Europe a Prophecy
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Europe a Prophecy is a 1794 prophetic book by the British poet and illustrator William Blake. It is engraved on 18 plates, and survives in just nine known copies. It followed America a Prophecy of 179
The Ancient of Days, frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy. This is from copy K, in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
This is from copy K, in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Plate 13
Plate six of Europe a Prophecy, copy K. The poem envisions a world filled with suffering, with imagery connected to the politics of 1790s Britain
America a Prophecy
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America a Prophecy is a 1793 prophetic book by the English poet and illustrator William Blake. It is engraved on eighteen plates, and survives in fourteen known copies. It is the first of Blake's Cont
Europe a Prophecy
…1794 prophetic book by the British poet and illustrator William Blake. It is engraved on 18 plates, and survives in just nine known copies. It followed America a Prophecy of 1793. During autumn 1790, Blake moved to Lambeth, (inner) London. He had a studio at the new house that he used while writing what were later called…
Title page of America a Prophecy, copy A (printed 1793), collection the Morgan Library
In plate 8 (copy A) Orc, spirit of revolution, arises. "The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up"
The frontispiece to America a Prophecy (Copy A)