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Watercolor by William Blake: a winged woman in a white robe spreads her arms beside a printed title panel, with stars and spires against a grey sky.

Blake's Ode for Music: Winged Figure and Title Panel

A winged female figure with long hair and a flowing white robe spreads her arms against a grey wash sky dotted with stars. A rectangular printed panel names the 1769 Cambridge Senate-House performance, and distant spires rise along the bottom edge in pen and watercolor.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3083 × 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)

William Blake18th centuryromantic art1790s1797book illustrationwatercolorangelspen and inkwinged figureode for musicwilliam blakethomas graycambridgegray wash

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