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Watercolor and pen illustration: a printed poem panel under a dark cloud, a robed figure looking up at right, a bent worker and horse, and a church spire at left.

Blake's Elegy Design: Gray's Country Churchyard, 1797

A pen and watercolor design showing a text block of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard beneath a large dark cloud, with a robed figure gazing upward at right. A bent figure works near a horse, while a church spire rises at left under a pale sky.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
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Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3076 × 4000 px
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Public domain · William Blake died 1827 and the work dates by 1797; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): William Blake, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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