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Night Thoughts, page 57: 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl', William Blake

Night Thoughts, page 57: 'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl'

'Trembling each gulp, lest death should snatch the bowl' (Page 57) (museum title)

William Blake (British) (1757-1827)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1797
Medium
Etching, engraving and letterpress, hand-colored with watercolor
Dimensions
40.6 × 32.1 cm
Collection
Yale Center for British Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Yale Center for British Art, CC0

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