- Title:
- "Nor fear the rocks, nor seek the shore..." (Design 101)
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: Fame (Design 102)
Ode for Music- Part Of:
- Date:
- between 1797 and 1798
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink upper right: "9"; in graphite center: "x"; on verso in black ink upper left: "10"; in black ink center: "Epitaph | 1. The mourner at the tomb | 2. Her infant image here below | Sits smiling on a Fathers woe"
Lettered on inlaid page: "ODE FOR MUSIC. 141 | 'While Spirits blest above and Men below | 'Join with glad voice the loud symphonious | 'lay. | VIII. | 'Thro' the wild waves as they roar | 'With watchful eye and dauntless mien | 'Thy steady course of honour keep, | 'Nor fear the rocks, nor seek the shore: | 'The star of Brunswick smiles serene, | 'And gilds the horrors of the deep.' | K2 EPI-"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.11(51)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- angel | banner | boat | flag | gown | Horn (Musical instrument) | literary theme | man | night | religious and mythological subject | rowboat | sail | sky | star | text | tree | trumpet | water | waves (natural events) | wings | woman
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3582
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Colin Cross, Blake revealed, William Blake : Discovery of a Masterwork , Observer, vol. 12, November 21, 1971, pp. 19-23, V 1245 Detached from Observer colour magazine [ORBIS]
Arnold Fawcus, Unknown Watercolours by William Blake, Illustrated London News, vol. 259, No. 6881, December 25, 1971, pp. 45-46, 49-51, Illustrated London News Historical Archive [ORBIS]