Blake’s Virtual Designs and Reconstruction of The Song of Los
Joseph Viscomi
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Illustration 1
Screen shot of 23 inch Apple Macintosh monitor, with digital images opened and sized in Adobe Photoshop.
Illustration 2
Screen shot of second 23 inch Apple Macintosh monitor, with digital images opened and sized in Adobe Photoshop.
Illustration 3
Songs of Innocence and of Experience copy C, plates 3 and 29
Used with permission.
Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 4
Songs of Innocence and of Experience copy C, plates 2 and 28
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
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America a Prophecy copy E, plates 10 and 12
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 6
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy C, plates 21 and 24
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, PML 17599.
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, virtual design of plates21 and 24, based on copy C
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, PML 17599.
Illustration 8
Death’s Door
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Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 9
America a Prophecy copy E, plate 8
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
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America a Prophecy copy E, plate 14
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 11
For Children: The Gates of Paradise copy D plate 17
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 12
America a Prophecy, virtual design of Death’s Door from plates 8 and 14, based on copy E
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 13
Drawing of Death’s Door
Untraced; photographed from Irene Langridge’s William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work. London, George Bell and Sons, 1904, p. 184.
Illustration 14
Drawing of Death’s Door
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Bequest of Charles J. Rosenbloom.
Illustration 15
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell copy D, plate 24
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 16
Robert Blair, The Grave, plate 11 (Death’s Door)
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Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 17
The Song of Los copy B, plate 1
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 18
The Song of Los copy B, plate 8
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Illustration 19
The Song of Los, virtual design of plates 1 and 8, based on copy E
This item is reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Illustration 20
The Song of Los copy B, plate 1 as transparency laid in reverse over plate 8 to reveal both sides of the plate simultaneously
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 21
The Song of Los copy B, plate 8 reversed and laid over plate 1, along its top and side edges, to reveal their shared shapes
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 22
The Song of Los copy B, plate 2
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 23
The Song of Los copy B, plate 5
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 24
The Song of Los copy B, plate 2, bottom edge of verso. Detail: computer enhancement of platemark to show dent in edge of plate
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 25
The Song of Los, virtual design of plates 2 and 5, based on copy A
Copyright (c) the Trustees of The British Museum.
Illustration 26
The Book of Urizen copy G, plate 4
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Collection of Robert N. Essick. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 28
The Song of Los copy B, plate 6
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 29
The Song of Los copy B, plate 7
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 30
The Song of Los copy B, plate 3
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Copyright (c) 2005 the William Blake Archive.
Illustration 31
The Song of Los copy B, plate 4
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Illustration 32
The Song of Los, recreated design for plates 3-4, based on copy E
This item is reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
The Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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The Song of Los, recreated design for plates 6-7, based on copy E
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Illustration 34
The Song of Los, recreated design for plates 3-4 and 6-7 as pages stitched together to form a diptych; based on copy E
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Blake’s monogram signature, c. 1795, on The Song of Los recreation of plates 6-7
This item is reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
| Auteur : | Joseph Viscomi |
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| Titre : | Blake’s Virtual Designs and Reconstruction of The Song of Los |
| Revue : | Romanticism on the Net, Numéro 41-42, février-mai 2006 |
| URI : | http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/013151ar |
| DOI : | 10.7202/013151ar |
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