Thenot Under a Fruit Tree, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"
Medium
Wood engraving; second state
Dimensions
block: 1 5/16 x 3 in. (3.3 x 7.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
Accession Number
31.87.14
Tags
FruitMenPastoralTrees
About the Artist
William Blake|Virgil|Robert John Thornton · 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...