page_title: Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion
section_title: Plate 1. Frontispiece. Los enters the Door of Death
hierarchical_section_title: Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion / Production technique / Plate 1. Frontispiece. Los enters the Door of Death
caption_attribution_description: English: William Blake, Plate 01 Jerusalem (copy E)
context_page_description: Jerusalem, subtitled The Emanation of the Giant Albion, is the last, longest and greatest in scope of the prophetic books written and illustrated by the English poet, artist and engraver William Blake. Etched in handwriting, accompanied by small sketches, marginal figures and huge full-plate illustrations, it has been described as "visionary theatre". The poet himself believed it was his masterpiece and it has been said that "of all Blake's illuminated epics, this is by far the most public and accessible".
  The lyric to the famous hymn Jerusalem is not connected to this poem. It is in fact taken from the preface to another of Blake's "prophetic books", Milton.
context_section_description: The design corresponds to the following lines originally incised in the plate (see below the Separate proof  in Fitzwilliam Museum), but erased later:
  Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity said Los
  
  As he enterd the Door of Death for Albions sake Inspired
  
  The long sufferings of God are not for ever there is a Judgment
  — Plate 1, lines 8-10
caption: Plate 1. Frontispiece, copy E (Yale Center for British Art).
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