On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil

Currently Available:

On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil, copy B, c. 1822 (Fitzwilliam Museum): electronic edition

On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil, copy F, c. 1822 (Morgan Library and Museum): electronic edition

Dates are the probable dates of printing.

The first of these two tractates on a single plate offers an anti-classical perspective on morality and concepts of unity in the arts. The second tractate denounces ancient Greece and Rome as tyrannies promoting war and dominion and destroying the imaginative arts. Blake etched in relief and printed all copies (A-F) c. 1822.

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All Known Copies

Copy A, c. 1822
Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art
Washington D.C.

Copy B, c. 1822
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, England

Copy C, c. 1822
Untraced

Copy D, c. 1822
Trinity College
Hartford, Connecticut

Copy E, c. 1822
New York University Library
New York City

Copy F, c. 1822
Morgan Library and Museum
New York City