Enoch
1806–7
Medium
Modified lithograph printed in relief from a stone; one state
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/2 × 12 3/16 in. (21.6 × 30.9 cm) Sheet: 9 3/8 × 13 1/16 in. (23.8 × 33.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer and Brooke Russell Astor Bequests and 2005 Benefit Fund, 2013
Accession Number
2013.146
Tags
About the Artist
William Blake · 1757–1827
William Blake (1757–1827) stands as one of the most visionary and unconventional artists in British history, a poet-painter-printmaker whose mystical imagination and radical vision profoundly shaped the Romantic movement. Born in London's Soho district, Blake experienced visions from childhood—claiming to see angels in trees at age eight—and these spiritual encounters would guide his art throughou...