Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a 1793 poem by William Blake, produced as a book with his own illustrations. The edition was very small, and copies have been individually traced. It is a short a
Frontispiece to William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), which contains Blake's critique of Abrahamic values of marriage.
John Gabriel Stedman
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John Gabriel Stedman was a Dutch-British army officer and writer best known for writing The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam. This narrative covers his expe
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
…being able to understand the true nature of reality, without being hindered by convention. It has been argued that Theotormon is a mythicised version of John Stedman, whose book about his experience of slavery and brutality in Suriname on the coast of South America was being illustrated by Blake at the time. Media…
Portrait of Stedman standing over a maroon after the capture of the Surinamese village of Gado Saby from the frontispiece of his Narrative
An Arawak woman, wearing a loincloth of woven beads, from Stedman's Narrative.
Illustration of a Dutch plantation owner and slave from William Blake's illustrations of the work of Stedman's work first published in 1792-1794
"A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows," by William Blake, originally published in Stedman's Narrative