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Designs for Gray's Poems, design 25: "An ancient pile of building stands... there Employed the power of Fairy hands", William Blake

Designs for Gray's Poems, design 25: "An ancient pile of building stands... there Employed the power of Fairy hands"

"An ancient pile of building stands... there Employed the power of Fairy hands" (Design 25) (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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