Urizen
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In the mythology of William Blake, Urizen is the embodiment of conventional reason and law. He is usually depicted as a bearded old man; he sometimes bears architect's tools, to create and constrain t
Blake's watercoloured etching The Ancient of Days
Urizen from the front page of Copy G (c. 1818) of The Book of Urizen currently held by the Library of Congress (detail)
Urizen with his net – The Book of Urizen, copy G, object 27 c.1818 (detail)
Urizen striding through a darkened space. The William Blake Archive identifies the image as describing "the episode in which "Urizen explor'd his dens / Mountain, moor, & wilderness, / With a globe of fire lighting his / journey" (The First Book of Urizen plate 22, Erdman page 81)." This illustration comes from Blake's "Small Book of Designs", one of his illuminated art books, that wasn't printed in mass (though some images are comparable to those in other works). This illustration is object 7 and plate 23 of "
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion is a prophetic book by English poet William Blake. Jerusalem is the last, longest and greatest in scope of Blake's works. Etched in handwriting, accompanie
Plate 2. Title page, copy E.
An image of ‘Hand’ and ‘Jerusalem’ falls published in the book between chapters one and two. This image is plate 26 of Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion, copy E. It is tilted on its side in the manuscript.
Skofeld wearing "mind forged manacles", plate 51, copy E
Plate 1. Frontispiece, copy E (Yale Center for British Art).