- Title:
- London (Plate 39)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Color-printed relief etching, 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 2 3/4 inches (11.1 x 7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "25"; in graphite, lower center: "39"
Lettered inside image: "LONDON | I wander thro' each charter'd street, | Near where the charter'd Thames does flow | And mark in every face I meet | Marks of weakness, marks of woe. | In every cry of every Man. | In every Infants cry of fear. | In every voice: in every ban. | The mind-forg'd manacles I hear | How the Chimney-sweepers cry | Every blacknng Church appalls. | And the hapless Soldiers sigh | Runs in blood down Palace walls | But most thro' midnight streets I hear | How the youthful Harlots curse | Blasts the new born Infants tear | And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1570
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cane | children | fire | historical subject | house | men | stone | text | 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:2517
- Export:
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