William BlakeThe Ancient of Days (1794)1794 · Fine Art Giclée Print
Urizen leans from the sun and sets a compass on the dark
Price$165 CAD
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The print & the framePaper, frame, glazing and hanging
Print
Giclée, printed to order with water-based inks.
Paper
Hahnemühle German Etching, 310gsm: a heavyweight, velvety matte fine-art paper with a warm white tone and a light texture.
Archival matte fine-art paper.
200gsm matte fine-art paper.
Frame
Solid wood with a satin finish, handmade to order. About 20 mm wide and 22 mm deep.
Glazing
Low-reflection glazing.
Mount
None. The print fills the frame.
Hanging
Framed prints arrive ready to hang.
Each frame is made to order by one of our framing workshops, so the exact shade and profile may vary slightly from the photos.
Crouched inside a blazing white-gold sun, a white-bearded god leans out through a bank of cloud and lowers a pair of compasses into the darkness below, the two golden legs of the instrument opening like a shaft of light. His hair and beard stream sideways in a wind that also drags the blue-grey and rose clouds across the disc behind him. This is Urizen — Blake's figure of reason and limitation — at the moment of setting a boundary to infinity, the frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy, printed and coloured by Blake himself in 1794. He is said to have worked on a version of it on his deathbed.
Europe a Prophecy, the illuminated book this design opens, consists of 17 relief etchings and follows on from America, an earlier book by Blake; the British Museum reads it as examining the destructive effects of a repressive Christianity on society. Copies vary in plate order and hand colouring. The British Museum has two, and others belong to the University of Glasgow, the Library of Congress and the Fitzwilliam Museum. In one British Museum copy a near-contemporary hand, possibly George Cumberland, added verses from Milton to the frontispiece.
William Blake (1757–1827) was a London engraver, poet and visionary who claimed to have seen angels in a tree at Peckham Rye as a boy and never stopped drawing what he saw. Ignored in his lifetime and buried in an unmarked grave, he invented his own printing method, his own mythology and his own theology; a century later the Symbolists, the Surrealists and half of modern counter-culture claimed him as an ancestor.
Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in solid wood with low-reflection glazing, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.
William Blake — The Ancient of Days | Fine Art Giclée PrintPrice$165.00
The print is colorful and pleasing to the eye. The paper is of high quality with good thickness that is great for display by itself or in a frame. A good price for the quality! Thank you!
Taylor H.
Verified buyer · reviewed on our Etsy shop · March 2026 Unframed Hahnemühle · Accent - 12x18 inches
The print is so exquisite that I literally gasped upon opening it! The quality of color and paper is museum quality and well worth the purchase price This vendor is now at the top of my list in ordering future art prints!
Imani S.
Verified buyer · reviewed on our Etsy shop · February 2026 Unframed Hahnemühle · MASTERPIECE - 24x36 inches
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What paper do you use?
Our principal fine-art papers include
Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm and
Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm.
German Etching has a substantial, lightly textured surface that works
exceptionally well for paintings and richly coloured works. Photo Rag
has a smoother cotton surface suited to graphic, modernist and highly
detailed imagery.
Paper is selected according to the character of the artwork rather than
using one generic stock for everything. Framed prints are printed on 200gsm matte fine-art paper.
What does “giclée” actually mean?
Giclée is a professional fine-art printing process using archival pigment
inks and high-resolution inkjet technology. Unlike inexpensive poster
printing, it is designed to reproduce subtle colour gradations, fine detail
and tonal depth.
It is a reproduction method widely used by artists, photographers,
galleries and professional fine-art printers.
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Are these just posters?
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Our framed pieces use solid-wood frames, handmade to order, with low-reflection glazing. There is no mount: the print fills the frame. Framed prints are printed on 200gsm matte fine-art paper.
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Will the colours look exactly like my screen?
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print and aim for accurate colour, contrast and tonal reproduction.
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“I am not just impressed; I'm blown away by the quality and overall experience. The wood grain in the frame is beautiful and the print quality is superb.”
Scarlett C. · verified buyer from our Etsy shop · framed in natural oak
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