Art, literature & history
On Homer's Poetry (and) On Virgil
1822
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- relief etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 13 x 10.6 cm (5 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.) sheet: 28.8 x 23.2 cm (11 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.1720
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
William Blake. On Homer's Poetry (and) On Virgil. 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,_On_Homer%27s_Poetry_(and)_On_Virgil,_1822,_NGA_4866.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
On Homer's Poetry (and) On Virgil — William Blake. 1822.
Medium: relief etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 13 x 10.6 cm (5 1/8 x 4 3/16 in.) sheet: 28.8 x 23.2 cm (11 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.1720. 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.