File:Blake The River of Life Tate Britain.jpg

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Artist William Blake (1757‑1827)

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The River of Life

Date c.1805

MediumInk and watercolour on paper

Dimensionsimage: 305 x 336 mm support: 442 x 432 mm

Collection Tate Britain

Acquisition Bequeathed by W. Graham Robertson 1949

This work illustrates lines from the Book of Revelation. The River of Life flows from the throne of God to the Tree of Life.

It is also a rare example of how Blake presented his watercolours: he drew the washline border between ruled ink lines.

The yellow tone of the paper is the result of over-exposure to light. This caused some of the original blue paint (indigo perhaps) to fade; the fuzzy band of Prussian blue on the lower edge, and spots of the same colour in the river, were added later by someone trying to ‘correct’ this fading.
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Source http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-the-river-of-life-n05887
Author
William Blake  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q41513 s:en:Author:William Blake q:en:William Blake
 
William Blake
Alternative names
W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death 28 November 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 12 August 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
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London; Felpham Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q41513

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