illustration 69
69. 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 faint traces of yellow ochre ink from first printing strengthened and brought out by oversaturating the pigments on a computer using Adobe Photoshop software.