Art, literature & history
Restrike from fragment of cancelled plate for "A Prophecy"
1793
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- relief etching//plate inked by transferring ink from another plate thinly coated with ink
- Dimensions
- sheet: 21.2 × 13.8 cm (8 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1948.11.28
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Blake. Restrike from fragment of cancelled plate for "A Prophecy". William Blake; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Blake,_Restrike_from_fragment_of_cancelled_plate_for%22A_Prophecy%22,_1793,_NGA_34670.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Restrike from fragment of cancelled plate for "A Prophecy" — William Blake. 1793.
Medium: relief etching//plate inked by transferring ink from another plate thinly coated with ink.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 21.2 × 13.8 cm (8 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1948.11.28. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.