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Designs for Gray's Poems, design 39: "With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty...", William Blake

Designs for Gray's Poems, design 39: "With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty..."

"With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty..." Design 39) (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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