And Like a Corpse Fell to the Ground, 1826

  • William Blake, English, 1757-1827

Engraving printed in black ink on chine collé

  • Plate: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (27.6 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 15 1/2 × 21 5/8 inches (39.4 × 54.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund

42.120

Watermark, along lower left edge: [very small fragment]

Inscribed, in plate, in reverse, lower right of image: The W[illegible]ot Lovers [illegible] Dantes Inferno Canto V Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: 1

(William H. Robinson)

1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

William Blake, And Like a Corpse Fell to the Ground, 1826, engraving printed in black ink on chine collé. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, 42.120.