- Title:
- Chapter IV, "Los smitten with astonishment..." (Plate 12)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm), Plate: 6 x 4 inches (15.2 x 10.2 cm), Spine: 10 1/4 inches (26 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite upper right: "25 - | [ . . . ] | 10 - [ . . . ]"
Lettered inside image, left: "Chap: IV: | -ment | 1: Los smitten with astonish- | Frightend at the hurtling bones | 2: And at the surging sulphure- | -ous | Perturbed Immortal mad raging | 3: In whirlwinds & pitch & nitre | Round the furious limbs of Los"; right: "4: And Los formed nets & gins | And threw the nets round about | 5: He watch'd in shuddring fear | The dark changes & bound every | change | With rivets of iron & brass; | 6. And these were the changes | of Urizen."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.5(12)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bones (material) | dead | death | kneeling | literary theme | religious and mythological subject | skeleton | text
- 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:3900
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