The Dance of Albion (Glad Day)
c. 1803/1810
Artist, British, 1757 - 1827
William Blake
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Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 27 x 19.4 cm (10 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 30.8 x 23.2 cm (12 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.8990
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bindman 1978, no. 400
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1947
Prints and Drawings by William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1947, no cat.
1957
The Art of William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1957, no. 67, repro.
1961
Blake, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1961.
1965
William Blake, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1965, no. 18, repro.
William Blake, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no cat.
1970
William Blake's Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1970, no cat.
1982
William Blake: His Art and Times, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT; and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1982-1983, no. 49b, repro.
1990
William Blake, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1990, no. 18, repro.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
2000
William Blake, Tate Britain, London, 2000-2001, no. 176.
Bibliography
1978
Bindman, David. The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.
1996
Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 362; fig.6.41, 363.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: WB inv 1780 (Bindman: either the date of conception or of first state); across bottom in plate: Albion rose from where he labourd at the Mill with Slaves / Giving himself for the Nations he danc'd the dance of Eternal [Death?]
Wikidata ID
Q65026706