Blake's Water-Colours for the Poems of Thomas Gray: With Complete TextsCourier Corporation, 2013 M12 31 - 128 pages At the dawn of the 19th century, Blake created this imaginative series of 116 watercolors to illustrate 13 poems by Thomas Gray. Including such popular poems as "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" and "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat," these rarely exhibited treasures remained exclusively in the hands of collectors for close to 175 years. This is the first inexpensive, full-color reproduction, with the complete text of the poems. |
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... light on the true visionary character of this rare genius . When young William was just a lad of fourteen , his shopkeeper father determined that the boy's artistic leanings would best be served by an apprenticeship in the engraver's ...
... light on the true visionary character of this rare genius . When young William was just a lad of fourteen , his shopkeeper father determined that the boy's artistic leanings would best be served by an apprenticeship in the engraver's ...
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... light of such tragic circumstances , it is especially fortunate that William Blake's Water- Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray , commissioned by John Flaxman for his wife Ann , have survived at all since their completion in ...
... light of such tragic circumstances , it is especially fortunate that William Blake's Water- Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray , commissioned by John Flaxman for his wife Ann , have survived at all since their completion in ...
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... light , That fly th ' approach of morn . Alas ! regardless of their doom , The little victims play ! No fenfe have they of ills to come , Nor care beyond to - day : Yet fee , how all around ' em wait The minifters of human fate , And ...
... light , That fly th ' approach of morn . Alas ! regardless of their doom , The little victims play ! No fenfe have they of ills to come , Nor care beyond to - day : Yet fee , how all around ' em wait The minifters of human fate , And ...
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... Fairy hands To raife the ceiling's fretted height , Each pannel in atchievements clothing , Rich windows that exclude the light , And paffages , that lead to nothing . E 4 Full 3 A LONG STORY , The first came cap - a.
... Fairy hands To raife the ceiling's fretted height , Each pannel in atchievements clothing , Rich windows that exclude the light , And paffages , that lead to nothing . E 4 Full 3 A LONG STORY , The first came cap - a.
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