- Title:
- Introduction (Plate 3)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F
- Date:
- 1789
- Materials & Techniques:
- Relief etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm), Plate: 4 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches (11.1 x 7.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "3"
Lettered inside image: "Introduction | Piping down the valleys wild, | Piping songs of pleasant glee | On a cloud I saw a child. | And he laughing said to me. | Pipe a song about a Lamb. | So I piped with merry chear, | Piper pipe that song again -- | So I piped, he wept to hear. | Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe | Sing thy songs of happy chear. | So I sang the same again | While he wept with joy to hear | Piper sit thee down and write | In a book that all may read -- | So he vanish'd from my sight | And I pluck'd a hollow reed. | And I made a rural pen, | And I stain'd the water clear, | And I wrote my happy songs, | Every child may joy to hear"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1548
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- branches | historical subject | leaf | text | trees | vines
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2480
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