Songs of Innocence and of Experience… by William Blake

Watercolour of a bearded bard playing a harp before listeners, with a handwritten poem above the scene.

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy C object 24 The Voice of the Ancient Bard, William Blake (1789), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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This hand-coloured relief etching from 1789 by William Blake shows a bearded elderly bard playing a harp while a group of figures listens, including a kneeling man and several young women and children. The verse above the scene is written in Blake's own script, framed by stylised flourishes and a wavy vine-like line, with washes of blue, yellow and green behind the figures. The work belongs to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience series, copy C.

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1789

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain