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Night Thoughts, page 73: 'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing', William Blake

Night Thoughts, page 73: 'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing'

'Draw the dire steel? – ah no! – the dreadful blessing' (Page 73) (museum title)

William Blake (British) (1757-1827)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1797
Medium
Etching, engraving and letterpress, hand-colored with watercolor
Dimensions
40 × 30.8 cm
Collection
Yale Center for British Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Yale Center for British Art, CC0

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