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Designs for Gray's Poems: Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard; Title Page, William Blake

Designs for Gray's Poems: Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard; Title Page

Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard; Title Page (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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