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Watercolor of a tall verse panel titled A Pindaric Ode, with a robed seated figure at center, a bearded old man at left, a woman at right, and dark clouds above.

The Bard, Design 61, from The Poems of Thomas Gray

Watercolor and pen illustration showing a tall text panel titled "A Pindaric Ode" set among seated figures. A long-haired figure in a rust-red robe raises his face at center, an elderly bearded man sits at lower left, and a woman sits at lower right beneath dark, swirling clouds.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3126 × 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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