William Blake: Dreamer of Dreams Jackson Library
Frontispiece of There is No Natural Religion Title page of There Is No Natural Religion
THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION

1788

With All Religions Are One, published the same year, There Is No Natural Religion represents Blake's first attempt at what he called "illuminated printing." The text is essentially an attack on Deism.

The nineteen prints comprising There Is No Natural Religion show great technical improvement in lettering and decoration over the ten imperfect plates of All Religions Are One.

Shown here are the title page and colored frontispiece from Series A, as designated in the Trianon Press facsimile. The frontispiece perhaps represents Youth (the two figures on the right) learning true philosophy from the wisdom of Age (the two seated figures on the left). Blake's script for this series closely resembles that of the later Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience.

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