The Ancient of Days mb-code PG-5247-36 viewed from the Observatory

viewed from the Observatory

he had been dubbed the 'Grand Old Man' by Henry Labouchere in 1881

Peter McBride

Plate 88 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain

A miserable President Lincoln is being told by Mrs North that the Civil War must be brought to an end

The Ancient of Days mb-code PG-5247-36 viewed from the Observatory'The Ancient of Days', 1793. From Europe a Prophecy by William Blake (1757 1827). Urizen measuring out the material world; an allegory of the French Revolution, the second of Blake's Continental Prophecies where, along with America a Prophecy, he gives his response to the various revolutions of his day.