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2. Songs
of Experience, title plate. Handmade relief etching based on Blake’s
design, 12.8 x 7.5 cm., color printed in oil-based ink and undiluted burnt
sienna watercolor. Detail: the color lower right, below the area where
the date appears in Blake’s original (only a faint trace of it is present
here), was printed from the plate and reticulated as it transferred from
the plate to the paper; the color covering the date (upper right) was
brushed on the impression after the ink was dry and has a flat texture
and stronger covering power because it did not mix with the wet ink. Printed
26 July and painted 27 July 2002.
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