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Watercolor design with a printed poem panel at top center. A draped figure leans down above, a red-orange winged figure falls toward grey water at lower left, and a pale figure rises at right.

Blake's Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Design 11

A watercolor and ink design by William Blake with a printed poem panel reading 'Of a Favourite Cat' at top center. Above, a figure in grey-blue drapery leans down, while a winged figure in orange and red plunges toward a grey sea at lower left, and a pale figure rises at right.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3062 × 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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