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| John Constable Trees in a Meadow 1805 wash drawing, watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Flaxman Two women with a child before 1826 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Richard Parkes Bonington after Anthony van Dyck Costume study ca. 1827-28 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Samuel Palmer Ancient trees, Lullingstone Park 1828 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
Fearing that Albion should turn his back against the Divine Vision,
Los took his globe of fire to search the interiors of Albion's
Bosom, in all the terrors of friendship entering the caves
Of despair & death to search the tempters out, walking among
Albion's rocks & precipices, caves of solitude & dark despair,
And saw every Minute Particular of Albion degraded & murder'd,
But saw not by whom; they were hidden within in the minute particulars
Of which they had possess'd themselves; and there they take up
The articulations of a man's soul and laughing throw it down
Into the frame, then knock it out upon the plank, & souls are bak'd
In bricks to build the pyramids of Heber & Terah. But Los
Search'd in vain; clos'd from the minutia, he walk'd difficult.
He came down from Highgate thro' Hackney & Holloway towards London
Till he came to old Stratford, & thence to Stepney & the Isle
Of Leutha's Dogs, thence thro' the narrows of the River's side –
And saw every minute particular: the jewels of Albion running down
The kennels of the streets & lanes as if they were abhorr'd:
Every Universal Form was become barren mountains of Moral
Virtue and every Minute Particular harden'd into grains of sand,
And all the tendernesses of the soul cast forth as filth & mire –
– from Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (begun 1804) by William Blake
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| Richard Cosway Profile study of young man before 1821 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Constable Mary Constable reading 1812 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Flaxman Two women talking to an angry man before 1826 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Constable Académie 1808 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Samuel Palmer Primitive Cottage, Shoreham ca. 1820s drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Richard Cosway Study for miniature portrait of young man before 1821 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Constable Mr. Hobson of Markfield with his family ca. 1806 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Samuel Palmer Cottage among trees, Shoreham ca. 1820s drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Flaxman Woman with child in her arms before 1826 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Flaxman Woman with child looking back before 1826 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
Reader! . . . of books! . . . of heaven,
And of that God from whom . . . ,
Who in mysterious Sinai's awful cave
To Man the wondrous art of writing gave:
Again he speaks in thunder and in fire!
Thunder of Thought, & flames of fierce desire:
Even from the depths of Hell his voice I hear
Within the unfathom'd caverns of my Ear.
Therefore I print; nor vain my types shall be:
Heaven, Earth & Hell henceforth shall live in harmony.
– William Blake, from the preface to Jerusalem (begun 1804)