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Songs of Experience: The Voice of the Ancient Bard by William Blake

Songs of Experience: The Voice of the Ancient Bard

William Blake · 1789

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Artist
William Blake
Date
1789
Medium
Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm)
Collection
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1917
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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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