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1. The Pastorals of Virgil, London, 1821

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
17 wood engravings reprinted from the original blocks
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 5: Colinet: 'My piteous plight in yonder naked tree,/ which bears the thunder-scar too plain, I see:'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 7: Thenot: 'Nor fox, nor wolf, nor rot among our sheep:/ from these good shepherd's care his flock may keep/ against ill luck,'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 13: Thenot: 'for him our yearly wakes and feasts we hold,/ and choose the fairest firstlings from the fold;'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 14: Thenot: 'This night thy care with me forget, and fold/ thy flock with mine, to ward th' injurious cold.'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 15: Thenot: 'New milk, and clouted cream, mild cheese and curd,/ with some remaining fruit of last year's hoard,/ shall be our ev'ning fare.'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 1: Frontispiece: Thenot: 'Is it not Colinet I lonesome see,/ leaning with folded arms against the tree?'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 12: Colinet: 'In vain, O Colinet, thy pipe, so shrill,/ charms every vale, and gladdens every hill:'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Each creature, Thenot, to his task is born

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 3: Thenot: 'Yet though with years my body downward tend,/ as trees beneath their fruit in autumn bend,'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 4: Colinet: 'Thine ewes will wander; and their heedless lambs,/ in loud complaints, require their absent dams.'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Or blasting winds o'er blossom'd hedge-rows pass

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 8: Colinet: 'Ah silly I! more silly than my sheep,/ which on thy flow'ry banks I wont to keep.'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 9: Colinet: 'A fond desire strange lands and swains to know./ Ah me! that ever I should covet wo.'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 10: Thenot: 'A rolling stone is ever bare of moss;/ and, to their cost, green years old proverbs cross.'

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. My sheep quite spent through travel and ill fare

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. And now behold the sun's departing ray

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood-engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Wood Engravings of William Blake for Thorton's Virgil 1821. London, 1977. Plate 17: Thenot: '

No cover image available
Creator:
William Blake, 1757–1827
Date:
1821, reprinted 1977
Materials & Techniques:
Wood engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 3/4 x 6in. (12.1 x 15.2cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Parnassus

Parnassus
Creator:
Print made by William Bernard Cooke, 1778–1855
Date:
1821
Materials & Techniques:
Line engraving and etching, engraver's proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 11 7/8 inches (36 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection