Abstract
ABSTRACT William Blake printed and re-printed his illuminated books many times over his lifetime, using watercolors to make both slight and significant alterations to each of his plates. Built by the Yale DHLab, BlakeTint is a new digital humanities tool that traces changes in color across Blake's oeuvre, using color quantization to extract proportional color palettes for each of his plates and producing several visualizations of this data. Resting at the intersection of book history and digital humanities, this paper studies Blake's color theory from multiple angles—comparing his theoretical writings on color to his actual practice, scrutinizing color-terms in his poetry, and analyzing BlakeTint's data to understand Blake's evolving relationship with and mythology of color.
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