- Title:
The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 45, "The Progress of Poesy."
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 46, "The Progress of Poesy"
- Part Of:
- 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 black ink upper right: "5"; in graphite center: "x"; on verso in black 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(23)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- angel | arrows | bow | branches | chariot | dancing | dead | fiddle | fire | flames | flutes | girls | light | literary theme | man | musical instruments | religious and mythological subject | star | sun | text | tree | trees | violin | wings | women
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3634
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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