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Designs for Gray's Poems, design 11: "Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd, The slipp'ry verge her feet beguil'd...", William Blake

Designs for Gray's Poems, design 11: "Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd, The slipp'ry verge her feet beguil'd..."

"Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd, The slipp'ry verge her feet beguil'd..." (Design 11) (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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