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  • Title: A Poison Tree
  • Creator: William Blake
  • Date Created: 1794
  • Subject Keywords: death, nudes
  • Set or Series Title: Songs of Experience
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1937
  • Materials & Techniques: Relief etching printed in black ink on J. Whatman (1831?) paper
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Edition: Edition printed ca. 1831, published 1831; probably from a book broken up by Weyhe Gallery, New York, ca. 1931 according to G. E. Bently, Blake Books, 1977, pp. 370, 429
  • Dimensions: 1827
  • Bibliography: Binyon 228; for relief etching, see Binyon pp. 9–16
  • Associated People: Created by William Blake (British (English), 1757-1827)
  • Accession Number: 1937.D1.91

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