Frontispiece: Jerusalem (1952)
- Title
- Frontispiece: Jerusalem (1952)
- Student Commentary:
- In this image from Jerusalem, a man opens an arched door that leads to a dark room. Blake scholars theorize that this man is Los, mainly because of the glowing orb he holds in his right hand. The orb casts light and shadows across the doorway as Los steps within. This image from the 1952 facsimile should be compared to the colored facsimiles in the library’s collections from 1951 and 1974. Without full color, some details are lost and the orb seems a much flatter object. The space that Los is moving through also seems more mysterious.