Visions of the daughters of Albion : the eye sees more than the heart knows
William Blake's illuminated book of poetry, printed by Blake himself in London around 1793 and possibly later, from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress. The pictures are small hand-coloured relief etchings with loose watercolour washes, showing reclining and kneeling figures, floating winged women, and nude male figures against sky and cloud. A designer might take from them the economical outline work, flat translucent colour fields, and figures set into bands of sky and landscape.
