William Blake, 1806 - Enoch - fine art print

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Blake’s only lithograph celebrates artistic creativity as springing from closeness to the divine. The composition centers on Enoch, a mysterious Old Testament figure described in Genesis 5:22-29 as having "walked with God." Representing theological speculation that the patriarch invented writing, Blake places him a dais holding a book inscribed with Hebrew letters with hovering beings to either side representing prophesy and inspiration. Below, Enoch’s children practice painting, music and poetry to suggest that all the arts flow from writing. The technique demonstrates the artist’s experimental approach to print-making. Lithography was invented in Germany in the mid-1790s, reached London in 1800, and was patented as "polyautography." Attracted by the new process, Blake either rented or borrowed a printing stone from the patent holder, Georg Jacob Vollweiler, but devised his own unique mixture of lithographic and acid relief methods to produce Enoch. Only four copies of the print have survived and the first owner of this version transcribed Blake’s unique method on the verso, the text now visible over the prophet’s head.

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This over 210 year-old artwork Enoch was created by William Blake in 1806. The original version measures the size - 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) and was produced with the technique modified lithograph printed in relief from a stone; one state. This artwork is part of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located in New York City, New York, United States of America. We are pleased to reference that the masterpiece, which is part of the public domain is being supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer and Brooke Russell Astor Bequests and 2005 Benefit Fund, 2013. Besides, the artpiece has the creditline: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer and Brooke Russell Astor Bequests and 2005 Benefit Fund, 2013. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a side ratio of 1.4 : 1, which means that the length is 40% longer than the width. The writer, poet, engraver, illustrator, painter, theologian, collector, philosopher, lithographer William Blake was an artist, whose style can be classified as Symbolism. The British painter was born in the year 1757 in London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom and passed away at the age of 70 in the year 1827.

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