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William Blake: The Ancient of Days
Artist	William Blake  (1757–1827)       Alternative names W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake Description English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator Date of birth/death 28 November 1757  12 August 1827  Location of birth/death London London Work location London; Felpham  Authority file : Q41513 VIAF: 54144439 ISNI: 000000012096135X ULAN: 500012489 LCCN: n78095331 NLA: 35019221 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q41513
Title	Ancient of Days
Object type	painting / etching print
Genre	mythological painting
Description	English: Etching / Watercolour Size: 23.3 x 16.8 cm (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inch) Location: British Museum, London (THIS IS NOT a copy held by Whitworth Institute, Manchester, but sourced from the British Museum – Dmitrismirnov, talk, 11 July 2013)
Date	1794 date QS:P571,+1794-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Publication date	1794
Medium	ink and paper
Dimensions	height: 23.3 cm (9.1 in) ; width: 16.8 cm (6.6 in)  dimensions QS:P2048,+23.3U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+16.8U174728
Collection	Fitzwilliam Museum    Native name The Fitzwilliam Museum Location Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB United Kingdom Coordinates 52° 12′ 01″ N, 0° 07′ 10″ E   Established 1848 Website www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk Authority file : Q1421440 VIAF: 159048724 ISNI: 000000012238658X ULAN: 500219279 LCCN: n81041657 NLA: 35175592 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q1421440 Library of Congress    Native name Library of Congress Location Washington, D.C. , United States of America Coordinates 38° 53′ 19″ N, 77° 00′ 17″ W   Established 24 April 1800  Website loc.gov  Authority file : Q131454 VIAF: 151962300 ISNI: 000000012186288X ULAN: 500312782 LCCN: n78089035 NLA: 35304669 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q131454 Glasgow University Library    Location Glasgow Coordinates 55° 52′ 23.88″ N, 4° 17′ 20.4″ W   Established 1451 Website www.gla.ac.uk/services/library  Authority file : Q5566950 VIAF: 139315116 ISNI: 0000000112505848 LCCN: n86838929 Open Library: OL1603998A NKC: ko20221158074 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q5566950 British Museum    Native name British Museum Location London Coordinates 51° 31′ 10″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W   Established 1753 Website www.britishmuseum.org Authority file : Q6373 VIAF: 134857252 ISNI: 0000000123428817 ULAN: 500125180 LCCN: n79107735 NLA: 35022119 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q6373 Houghton Library    Parent institution Harvard Library  Location Cambridge Coordinates 42° 22′ 23.5″ N, 71° 06′ 57.4″ W   Established 1942 Website library.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton  Authority file : Q3719374 VIAF: 155530939 ISNI: 0000000121904234 ULAN: 500307208 LCCN: n80097499 NLA: 36125461 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q3719374
Accession number	1859,0625.72 (British Museum)
Object history	1885: in collection of British Museum
Exhibition history	Europeana 280
Inscriptions	In his hand, he took the Golden Compasses, prepared in Gods Eternal stone, to circumscribe This Universe, and all created things One foot he center'd, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, thus farr extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O World.
References	http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=114621001&objectid=1344764  https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1859-0625-72 (British English) British Museum object ID: P_1859-0625-72  The complete graphic works of William Blake
Source/Photographer	http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/blake/ancient.jpg http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/blake/ancient.jpg.html
Permission (Reusing this file)	Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
Other versions	This file has multiple extracted images: Preferred New Version Copy D, British Museum Mirrored Background Version

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Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here:

* 00:45, 11 April 2004 [[:en:User:The Anome|The Anome]] 767×1092 (159,487 bytes)
(William Blake's etching/watercolour "Ancient of Days", public domain, from http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/blake/ancient.jpg)

According to the British Museum website (www.britishmuseum.org ... the ancient of days), the copy they have of The Ancient of Days is a drawing, not an etching with watercolour. They also state that it is not considered to be a work by William Blake

The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, UK, do claim to have the etching / watercolour as part of their collection:

• www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk^{[dead link]}

• www.britishmuseum.org/.../search(william+blake)

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