Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 8, "The Ecchoing Green" (Bentley 6)
Date:
1789
Materials & Techniques:
Relief etching printed in green ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "6"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.43.1551
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sitting | historical subject | food | fruit | leaf | text | walking | branches | hoop | women | children | kite | ball | vine | men | bat | grapes | stick | trees
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)
Publications:
Michael Sanders, God Save the Ecchoing Green: The Uses of Imaginary Nostalgia in Willilam Blake and Ray Davies, Visual Culture in Britain, 19, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England, p. 353, fig. 2, N6761 V57 (LC) (YCBA)