Atelier Editions
A contemporary Surrealium colour interpretation, not a claim to recover the artist's intended colours.
Artist: William Blake
Museum original and attributionThorny stems and drooping flowers surround the words of The Sick Rose, with small human forms woven into the design. This illuminated page belongs to William Blake’s Songs of Experience. The source is the Met’s hand-coloured impression printed around 1825 from a plate first etched in 1794.
The poem’s unseen worm and destructive love give the page its disturbing undertone. Surrealium’s AI-assisted edition follows the museum image’s existing colours, keeping poetry, ornament and illustration together. Compare both versions to explore this small, haunting work.
Choose the edition as shown on fine-art paper or canvas. No subscription is needed to order; personal colour variations are available to active Fable subscribers.