Thenot Under Fruit Tree, from The Pastorals of Virgil
William Blake
1821
Medium
Wood engraving on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image/block: 3.2 × 7.5 cm (1 5/16 × 3 in.); Sheet: 6.4 × 10.8 cm (2 9/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
wood engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
18279
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...