“God Judging Adam,” 1795 (color-printed relief etching finished in pen and ink and watercolor), by William Blake. ©Tate Gallery William Blake (1757-1827) worked until just before his death ...

William Blake, “Frontispiece / Europe A Prophecy” (1794–1821), relief-etching, printed in color, with hand coloring, and heightened with gold, c. 1821; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ...

A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English poet-painter in all his radical frenzy, and foretells the limits of political art.

Each Blake print is smaller than a letter-sized sheet of paper, and was produced through a process known as relief etching. After painting the images on a copper plate with an acid-resistant varnish, ...

This etching of a small face may be one of William Blake's earliest engravings.© Bodleian Libraries / University of Oxford The etchings were discovered using ARCHiOx scanning technology, which ...

After Robert’s untimely death, William believed that his deceased brother spoke to him and was a source of his inspiration, helping him discover the technique of “relief etching,” which ...

Much like etching a PCB, Blake started with a copper sheet, writing and drawing his works backwards with stopping varnish, an acid-resistant varnish that sticks around after a nitric acid bath.

“The Ancient of Days,” from "Europe a Prophecy," printed 1795, William Blake (British, 1757–1827), color-printed relief etching in dark brown with pen and black ink, oil, and watercolor ...

A Sotheby's New York spokesperson stated: 'William Blake, the visionary poet and artist, was renowned for his unique method of relief-etching, allowing him to combine text and illustration in his ...

Ghost of a Flea Though Blake pioneered the art of 'relief etching', its palette of inky blues, bloody reds and dull golds were actually often applied by his wife, Catherine.