The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 17, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College."
Date:
between 1797 and 1798
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink upper right: "5"; in graphite upper center: "+"; on verso in black ink upper left: "6"; in graphite center: "+"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.11(9)
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
women | ball | trees | men | text | hoop | cave | girls | nest (animal architecture) | hat | bat | boys | night | wings | stick | monsters | literary theme | serpent | birds
Associated Places:
Eton College | United Kingdom | England | Berkshire | Windsor
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)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:
David Bindman, William Blake : His art and times, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 127, no. 63c, NJ18 .B57 B524 (LC)+ Oversize YCBAWilliam Blake, William Blake's water-colour designs for the poems of Thomas Gray, London, 1971, pp. 46-47, , des. no. 18, NJ18 .B57 A15 G73 K49 + Oversize YCBAMartin Butlin, Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1981, p. 259, no. 335 18, NJ18 B57 B874 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Colin Cross, Blake revealed, William Blake : Discovery of a Masterwork , Observer, vol. 12, November 21, 1971, pp. 19-23, V 1245 Detached from Observer colour magazinePatrick Noon, The human form divine : William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997, p. 60, NJ18 .B57 N66 (LC) YCBAJohn Russell, Blake the Craftsman, Art , Sunday Times, Issue no. 7749, December 12, 1971, p. 27, Sunday Times Digital ArchiveIrene Tayler, Blake's illustrations to the poems of Gray, Princeton, 1971, p. 37, NJ18 .B57 A15 G73 T69 YCBAArnold Fawcus, Unknown Watercolours by William Blake, Illustrated London News, vol. 259, No. 6881, December 25, 1971, p. 50 and p. 51, Illustrated London News Historical ArchiveFrank A. Vaughan, Again to the life of eternity : William Blake's illustrations to the poems of Thomas Gray, Selinsgrove and London, 1996, pp. 51-52, NJ18 .B57 A15 G73 V38 1996 (LC)+ Oversize YCBAScott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 48, no. 36, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)