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Watercolor of a bearded robed figure playing a lyre beside a barefoot boy holding a hat, with a printed title page overlaid on the figure.

The Progress of Poesy, Blake design for Gray's Pindaric Ode

A bearded figure in a long, pale blue robe plays a lyre while a small barefoot boy in a grey tunic holds a round hat beside him. A printed title page reading 'The Progress of Poesy, A Pindaric Ode' overlays the figure's torso against a pale background and green grass.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3069 × 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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