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Three white-haired women in gold scaled bodices and grey gowns stand in a row, with a printed title slip at center reading The Fatal Sisters.

The Fatal Sisters, Blake design for Gray's Poems

Three pale, white-haired women in gold scale-patterned bodices and long grey gowns stand side by side before a grey wash background. A printed title slip at center reads "The Fatal Sisters. An Ode," and tall spears rise at the edges, in pen and watercolor.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
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Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3106 × 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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