Pen and gray ink with graphite and watercolor on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 8 1/8 inches (15.2 x 20.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in graphite and brown ink, lower center: "Prone on the lowly grave - she drops - | Clings yet more closeley to the senseless turf | Nor heeds the passenger who looks that way."; inscribed in graphite and brown ink, verso, center: "78"; in graphite, verso, lower right: "2"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1026
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
graves | genre subject | man | women | mourning | husband | spire | graveyard | church | tombstones | couple | widow
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Gothic Nightmares - Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination (Tate Britain, 2006-02-15 - 2006-05-01)The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06)William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14)