The Wise and Foolish Virgins, by William Blake

An image of The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Blake, William (British, 1757-1827). Pen, Indian ink, grey wash and watercolour on paper, height 363 mm, width 337 mm, circa 1822.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

The Wise and Foolish Virgins. Blake, William (British, 1757-1827). Pen, Indian ink, grey wash and watercolour on paper, height 363 mm, width 337 mm, circa 1822.

Image data

Accession Number: PD.50-1950
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 944 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 924.94kB
Exposure time: 1/19
ISO Speed: 50
Captured: 2012:07:13 13:52:30

Key words

19th Century biblical Blake bridal bridesmaid British School eschatological female figures Fitz_PDP foolish illustration instruments lamps maidens music musical instruments New Testament oil lamp parable religion religious Romanticism trumpet virgin virginity virtue virtuous watercolour William Blake wisdom women

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "The Wise and Foolish Virgins, by William Blake"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-219124 Accessed: 2024-12-18 23:05:45

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-219124
            |title=The Wise and Foolish Virgins, by William Blake
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-18 23:05:45|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-219124

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/pd_50_1950_201207_mfj22_dc2.jpg"
        alt="The Wise and Foolish Virgins"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">The Wise and Foolish Virgins, by William Blake</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>