Keywords: William Blake - The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 105, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard." - Google Art Project.jpg Google Art Project watercolor London 1757 London 1827 William male 2369124 Blake British 1757 - 1827 /collection/yale-center-for-british-art/artwork/the-poems-of-thomas-gray-design-105-elegy-written-in-a-country-church-yard-william-blake/2380412/ William Blake Artist /artist/william-blake/4130035/ 4130035 /collection/yale-center-for-british-art/ Yale Center for British Art 2305845 http //britishart yale edu/ 2/23/2012 9 49 31 PM /collection/yale-center-for-british-art/artwork/the-poems-of-thomas-gray-design-105-elegy-written-in-a-country-church-yard-william-blake/2380412/ 1797 between 1797 and 1798 man woman writing thorns arch vault structural element column architectural element text grave tomb church cathedral trees historical subject book Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick slightly textured cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page 419 2380412 False 1798 3/25/2012 6 08 21 PM YCBA/lido-TMS-3585 http //collections britishart yale edu/vufind/Record/1667877 Yale Center for British Art Paul Mellon Collection painting 1790 1800 London Creation w324 x h419 cm between 1797 and 1798 False 0 78515625 Volume the-poems-of-thomas-gray-design-105-elegy-written-in-a-country-church-yard-william-blake The Poems of Thomas Gray Design 105 Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard p 324 Inscribed in black ink upper right 1 ; on verso in black ink upper left 2 ; in black ink center Elegy 1 The author writing 2 Contemplation among Tombs 3 'The Plowman homeward plods his weary way And leaves the world to darkness to me' 4 'For him no more the blazing hearth shall burn Nor children run to lisp their sires return' 5 'Oft did the Harvest to their sickle yield' 6 Chill penury repressd their noble rage' 7 'Some Village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his Fields withstood' 8 'Many a holy text around she strews' 9 'Some kindred spirit shall enquire thy fate Haply some hoary headed swain may say Oft c' 10 'Slow thro the Churchway path we saw him borne' 11 A Shepherd reading the Epitaph 12 A Spirit conducted to Paradise Inscription _Signed_and_Dated Not signed not dated Not on View Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick slightly textured cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page man woman writing thorns arch vault structural element column architectural element text grave tomb church cathedral trees historical subject book special url_id mQFwNGEh3k9NOQ PD-old-100-1923 1827 Google Art Project works by William Blake William Blake's illustrations to Thomas Gray's Poems 105 |