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47. William Blake, title plate, Songs
of Experience. Relief etching, 12.4 x 7.2 cm., etched 1794,
color printed and finished in watercolors 1794. Songs of Innocence
and of Experience copy T1,
1794. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Detail of pillars and
figures, computer enhanced by changing the contrast and midtones
to reveal the escarpments and other unprinted areas before they
were painted over. This pattern of color printing matches what we
see in the Songs of Innocence and of Experience copy F (illus.
46a) and copy G (illus. 46b) impressions, both printed in the same
session with this copy T1 impression.
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