The Dance of Albion (Glad Day)

c. 1803/1810

William Blake

Artist, British, 1757 - 1827

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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

    1943.3.8990

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bindman 1978, no. 400

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1957

  • The Art of William Blake, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1957, no. 67, repro.

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.

1996

  • William Blake, Fundación "la Caixa," Madrid; Fundació "la Caixa," Barcelona, 1996

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2000

  • William Blake, Tate Britain, 2000-2001.

  • William Blake, Tate Britain, London, 2000-2001.

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

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