Sabrina's zilveren rivier

A high-contrast woodcut depicts a rustic landscape under a dark, expressive sky. A river meanders through the center of the composition toward a small timbered cottage on the right, while a group of sheep is huddled in the lower left foreground. The vigorous, textured carving style creates a sense of a spiritualized or visionary nature rather than a literal topographical view.

Though illustrating a classical pastoral, Blake's woodcuts for Thornton's Virgil represent a landmark in the 'Visionary' tradition, where the material landscape is treated as a manifestation of the divine imagination. This series profoundly influenced the 'Ancients,' a group of English romantic artists including Samuel Palmer who sought to rediscover a mystical, sacred quality in the British countryside.