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Watercolor of a pale figure falling headfirst past a cloudy cliff toward a dark sea, beside a printed poem block titled A Pindaric Ode.

The Bard: Design 65 from Thomas Gray's Poems

Pale watercolor and ink show a figure plunging headfirst from a cloudy cliff toward a churning sea, with a printed verse block set in the upper left. Blake's design illustrates Thomas Gray's poem The Bard, and the lines about the leap are visible on the page.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3098 × 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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