Emblem 33; youth leading age, c1787-1818. Page from a sketchbook. Pencil drawing adopted for the poem 'London', in "'Songs of Experience", with sketch below used for the large colour print 'Elohim creating Adam'. From the Manuscript Notebook, William Blake's preparatory drawings for his collection of poems, "Songs of Innocence and of Experience", produced using 'illuminated printing' - image and text together, with the text engraved rather than printed.
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