Wherefore Dost Bruise Me? Weeping He Exclaimed, ca. 1826

  • William Blake, English, 1757-1827

Engraving printed in black ink on chine collé

  • Plate: 10 3/4 × 13 7/8 inches (27.3 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 15 1/2 × 21 1/4 inches (39.4 × 54 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund

42.126

Inscribed, in pencil, upper left corner and lower right: 7

(William H. Robinson)

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

William Blake, Wherefore Dost Bruise Me? Weeping He Exclaimed, ca. 1826, engraving printed in black ink on chine collé. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, 42.126.