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Watercolor design by William Blake with a printed poem panel. A veiled female figure holds a nude child reaching up, a kneeling figure at lower left, and a gold object at lower right.

Blake's Design for Gray's Progress of Poesy, Design 49

A watercolor and ink design with a printed text panel titled 'A Pindaric Ode' at its center. A large veiled female figure within a crescent of pale light cradles a small nude child who reaches upward, while a flowing figure kneels at lower left and a golden object rests at lower right above a green landscape.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3101 × 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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