- Title:
- The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 27, "A Long Story."
- Date:
- between 1797 and 1798
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink upper right: "5"; on verso in gray ink upper left: "6"; in graphite center: "x"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.11(14)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- chicken | chicks | children | dresses | fan | fence | geese | hat | house | leaf | literary theme | man | piglets | stairs | text | trees | vines | wall | window | women
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Colin Cross, Blake revealed, William Blake : Discovery of a Masterwork , Observer, vol. 12, November 21, 1971, pp. 19-23, V 1245 Detached from Observer colour magazine
John Russell, Blake the Craftsman, Art , Sunday Times, Issue no. 7749, December 12, 1971, p. 27, Available online : Sunday Times Digital Archive
Arnold Fawcus, Unknown Watercolours by William Blake, Illustrated London News, vol. 259, No. 6881, December 25, 1971, pp. 45-46, 49-51, Available online: Illus London News Hist. Archiv
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3614
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William Blake, 1757–1827, British, The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 27, "A Long Story.", between 1797 and 1798
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