William Blake

Illustrated Poems andMaterials

William Blake

Step by step “Engraving”

practice of incising a design on to a flat surface

cutting grooves into it a decorated object in itself an intaglio printing plate of a metal for printing images on paper as prints

or illustrations these images are also

called engravings.

What Materials are used?

acid plates İnk Paper Copper Gravers Mezzotint Burnisher

Some special materials

Gravers or Burins Their size and

shape change according to different line types

Small cutting points

Burnisher for certain stone

setting techniques

Mezzotint  for texturing effects

For palette

They include linseed oil in many colours

poppy oil in some and a mixture of these possibly walnut oil in others These oil types are typical of artists' oil

paint both hand-ground in the late 18th

The Tiger – the song of experience

Themes; God’s power in creation

Seventeen plates for The Tyger

The Lamb – The song of innocence

Themes; symbol of suffering innocence and Jesus Christ

Blake etched the Songs of Innocence in relief

thirty-one plates for The Lamb

There is no natural religion

twenty small plates Was etched in relief

The good and evil angel

The Shepherd

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