NMLP P-038217 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake · etched, printed and hand-colored by the author, London · 1789

Songs of Innocence was first printed in 1789; in 1794 Blake combined it with Songs of Experience under the general title "Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul", the combined work running to 54 plates (Innocence alone comprises 31 etched plates)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038217 for "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Blake (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038217, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).