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:
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“I Found Him Beneath a Tree”
Artist
Date
1826
From
The Gates of Paradise
