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Three draped figures with golden scaled sleeves stand beside a printed poem, with a dark grey horse-headed figure at right, in pen and wash.

The Fatal Sisters, Blake design for Gray's poems

Three draped female figures, seen from behind, with golden scale-patterned sleeves stand in a row beneath a printed verse block titled "An Ode." A dark grey, horse-headed figure looms at right, drawn in pen and grey and blue wash on pale paper.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3087 × 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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