Songs of Innocence: A Cradle Song (second plate)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Songs of Innocence and Experience (copy Y), plate 17
Artist: William Blake
Artist bio: British, London 1757–1827 London
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: British
Date: [1789] printed ca. 1825
Medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold
Dimensions: sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession year: 1917
Tags: Poetry|Infants|Women|Cradles|Sleeping