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Songs of Innocence: Spring (second plate)

William Blake, 1789

MEDIUMRelief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold
DIMENSIONSsheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm)
LOCATIONThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
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William Blake 1757–1827 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

William Blake, a visionary English poet, painter, and printmaker, created a symbolically rich body of work that was largely unrecognised in his lifetime.

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