User:Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy)/The Gates of Paradise (Blake)



The Gates of Paradise refers to a series of emblems engraved by William Blake in 1793, which were published as For Children: The Gates of Paradise. Sometime before around 1818, Blake reworked the engravings and added accompanying poems, publishing it as For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise.

The emblems
Completed in traditional copper engraving, the emblems

The poems
Thematically the poems are closely related to The Mental Traveller and The Crystal Cabinet