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Watercolor by William Blake: a crouching nude man beside a tree stump, a hooded grey figure at right, and a printed poem titled Ode on the Spring at center.

Blake's Ode on the Spring, Design 5 (Gray's Poems)

A nude, muscular man crouches low in the foreground, while a tall grey-robed hooded figure looms at right beside a gnarled tree stump. A printed verse block titled Ode on the Spring sits at center, with a dragonfly at left and winged figures in the sky above. Watercolor and ink on paper.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3149 × 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.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier B · as stated by the source: Public domain

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): William Blake, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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