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Designs for Gray's Poems, design 19: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, The whirl the wretch from high...", William Blake

Designs for Gray's Poems, design 19: "Ambition this shall tempt to rise, The whirl the wretch from high..."

"Ambition this shall tempt to rise, The whirl the wretch from high..." (Design 19) (museum title)

William Blake (British) (1757-1827)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1797–1798
Medium
Watercolor, pen and black ink over graphite, with inlaid letterpress page
Dimensions
41.9 × 32.4 cm (sheet)
Collection
Yale Center for British Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Yale Center for British Art, CC0

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