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Watercolor design with a snake-haired figure above, a crouching hooded woman and shadowy figures below, and a printed verse panel.

Blake's Design for Gray's Ode to Adversity (1797)

A dramatic watercolor and ink design with a printed verse block titled Ode to Adversity. A snake-haired, Medusa-like figure with an open mouth looms above, while a hooded woman crouches below and a shadowy figure rises from a pit on the left.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3092 × 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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