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Designs for Gray's Poems, design 43: "The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow...", William Blake

Designs for Gray's Poems, design 43: "The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow..."

"The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow..." (Design 43) (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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