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Pen and watercolor design of a bearded crowned warrior with spear and shield on a green hill, overlaid with a printed Preface text panel.

Blake's Preface page with a crowned warrior, Gray's Fatal Sisters

A bearded, crowned warrior in armor stands on a green hill, a spear raised in one hand and a round shield in the other, against a pale blue wash sky. A rectangular printed panel headed Preface covers his body, its prose visible, in a pen-and-watercolor design.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3063 × 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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