The Secret Cabinet
Newton
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Newton

1795 to c. 1805
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The story

Blake despised Newton's science as sterile single vision and placed him in an infernal trinity with Bacon and Locke. He shows the scientist naked on a mossy rock under the sea, bent over a compass. The print later inspired Paolozzi's bronze outside the British Library.

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Object details

Title
Newton
Artist
William Blake
Date
1795 to c. 1805
Culture
Not recorded
Medium
Colour print, ink and watercolour
Object type
Prints
Collection
Tate, London (N05058)
Credit line
Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number
EFA.0982
Original image
3000 × 2308 px
Source record
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License evidence
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