Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul

[1789–94] printed ca. 1825

Current Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor, ink and shell gold
Dimensions: 11.2 × 7.1 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-214920

Provenance

Rogers Fund, 1917

Registry history

[1789–94] printed ca. 1825 — Recorded in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art — prints

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