William Blake, “I found him beneath a Tree”, Plate 3 from The Gates of Paradise (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection), 1826.
Featured on PDR in the collection Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)
Discussing the mandrake in his Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual (1854), the occultist magician and writer Éliphas Lévi asked:
Also appearing in the collection…
![*[O]fft vnd vil habe ich by mir selbst betracht die wu[n]dersam werck des schepfers der natuer...*, 9412223 (National Library of Medicine), 1485, p. 415.](https://images.pdimagearchive.org/collections/mandrakes/mandrake-00012.jpeg?aspect_ratio=160:160&width=160&height=160&blur=70&quality=20)
![*[O]fft vnd vil habe ich by mir selbst betracht die wu[n]dersam werck des schepfers der natuer...*, 9412223 (National Library of Medicine), 1485, p. 417.](https://images.pdimagearchive.org/collections/mandrakes/mandrake-00013.jpeg?aspect_ratio=160:160&width=160&height=160&blur=70&quality=20)
Other works by the artist in the archive…
“I Found Him Beneath a Tree”
Artist
Date
1826
From
The Gates of Paradise
Image Size
840 x 1022
