- Title:
- The Mourner at the Tomb (Design 103)
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: "Her infant image, here below, Sits smiling on a father's woe..." (Design 104)
Epitaph on Mrs. Clarke- 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 on verso in graphite upper center: "x"
Lettered on inlaid page: "EPITAPH | ON | MRS. CLARKE. | LO! where this silent marble weeps, | A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps; | A Heart, within whose sacred cell | The peaceful Virtues lov'd to dwell. | Affection warm, and Faith sincere, | And soft Humanity were there. | In agony, in death resign'd, | She felt the wound she left behind. | K4 Her"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "146 EPITAPH, &c. | Her infant image, here below, | Sits smiling on a father's woe: | Whom what awaits, while yet he strays | Along the lonely vale of days? | A pang to secret sorrow dear; | A sigh; an unavailing tear; | Till time shall ev'ry grief remove, | With Life, with Memory, and with Love. | ELEGY."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.11(52)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- book | candle | chair | fireplace | girl | gown | grave | hearth | literary theme | man | mantle | monument | mourning | obelisk | sitting | text | tomb | tombstone | urn
- 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:3584
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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]