Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

245. The Eagle

Blake designed and engraved five plates for this book, which Hayley seems to have invented as a make-work project for Blake. This copy is inscribed to Mr. Weller, a carver in Chichester. In the plate shown here, a faithful dog sacrifices himself to save his master from a crocodile. The drawing of the eagle is also for Hayley's Ballads.

William Blake (1757-1827), The Eagle, 1974.58