Production Technique
The poem, which was produced between 1804 and 1820, consists of 100 etched and illustrated plates. This would be Blake's longest single work. The illustrated plates were made using Blake's self-devised technique of "illuminated printing". This required each copy to be individually coloured and produced plate by plate. Blake was not averse to changing the text of some plates between printings or changing the colouring, as a result of which no two original copies of the poem are the same. The sole extant colour edition of this work is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.
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