The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 5, "Ode on the Spring."
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 center: "+"; on verso in gray 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(3)
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
reading | web | man | fairies | wings | nude | men | text | sitting | trees | book | shroud | nudes | religious and mythological subject | tree | literary theme | scroll (information artifact) | kneeling | beard
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
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 magazineArnold Fawcus, Unknown Watercolours by William Blake, Illustrated London News, vol. 259, No. 6881, December 25, 1971, pp. 45-46, 49-51, Illustrated London News Historical Archive