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For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise

Currently Available:

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise
, copy D, c. 1825 (The Pierpont Morgan Library): electronic edition

Dates are the probable dates of printing.

In about 1820, Blake revised For Children: The Gates of Paradise, giving the work a new title, reworking the design plates at least twice, and adding three new text plates at the end (19-21). All twenty-one plates are intaglio etchings/engravings. Plates 19-20 contain brief interpretive statements keyed by number to the preceding design plates. The final plate is addressed to Satan as the "God of This [fallen] World."

Copies A and B were probably printed c. 1820. Copies C and D, plus a large group of impressions never collated into complete copies by Blake but now divided into what are designated as copies J-N, date from c. 1825. Copies E-I are probably posthumous.

Related Works

Related works currently available in the William Blake Archive appear as links below. Works not currently available appear as plain text.

  • Copy B, 1818
    British Museum, Dept. of Prints and Drawings
    London
  • Copy K, c. 1818-26
    Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection
    Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
  • Copy A, c. 1820
    Untraced
  • Copy C, c. 1825
    British Library
    London
  • Copy J, c. 1825
    Morgan Library and Museum
    New York City
  • Copy L, c. 1825
    Fitzwilliam Museum
    Cambridge, England
  • Copy M, c. 1825
    Untraced
  • Copy N, c. 1825
    Untraced
  • Copy E, c. 1831?
    Rosenbach Foundation
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Copy F, c. 1831?
    Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
    San Marino, California
  • Copy G, c. 1831?
    Yale Center for British Art
    Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Copy H, c. 1831?
    Miss Caroline Newton
  • Copy I, c. 1831?
    Beinecke Library
    Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Supplementary Illustrations