illustration 68
68. William Blake, “Nurses Song” (Experience). Relief etching, 11.1 x 6.9 cm., etched 1794, color printed and finished in watercolors and pen and ink 1794. Songs of Innocence and of Experience copy E, 1789/1794, with additional washes c. 1806. Huntington Library. Detail of the word “play” in line 7, showing traces of the first, faint printing of the text in yellow ochre just above the second printing of the word.