'The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlour,' from Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress
William Blake
1820–22
Medium
Relief etching and white line engraving on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/block: 8 × 16.2 cm (3 3/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 12.2 × 19.1 cm (4 13/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
Classification
relief etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83881
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...