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YCBA/lido-TMS-3627 http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object Human-Made Object 300451718 religious and mythological subject 300033973 drawing 300078925 watercolor 300410510 literary theme 300033973 Drawing & Watercolor "With screaming Horror's funeral cry, Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty..." Design 39) Verso: "Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread Goddess, lay thy chast'ning hand!..." (Design 40) Ode to Adversity The Poems of Thomas Gray Inscribed in black ink upper right: "5"; in graphite center: "x"; on verso in black ink upper left: "6"; in graphite upper center: "+" Lettered on inlaid page: "ODE TO ADVERSITY. 79 | Wisdom is sable garb array'd, | Immerse'd in rapt'rous thought profound, | And Melancholy, silent maid | With leaden eye, that loves the ground, | Still, on thy solemn steps attend: | Warm Charity, the general friend, | With Justice to herself severe, | And Pity, dropping soft the sadly-pleasing tear. | Oh, gently on thy suppliant's head, | Dread Goddess, lay thy chast'ning hand! | Not in thy Gorgon terrors clad, | Nor circled with the vengeful band | (As by the impious thou art seen) | With thund'ring voice, and threat'ning mien, | With screaming Horror's funeral cry, | Despair, and fell Disease, and ghastly Poverty. | F3 Thy"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "80 ODE TO ADVERSITY. | Thy form benign, oh Goddess, wear, | Thy milder influence impart, | Thy philosophic train be there | To soften, not to wound my heart. | The gen'rous spark extinct revive, | Teach me to love, and to forgive, | Exact my own defects to scan, | What other are to feel; and know myself a | man. | THE" 500303557 Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu B1992.8.11(20) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28796637 Not on view Yale Center for British Art 41.3080060, -72.9306282 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm) width cm 32.4 height cm 41.9 Sheet 3627 300054713 production William Blake, 1757–1827, British ycba_actor_248 http://catalogo.bne.es/uhtbin/authoritybrowse.cgi?action=display&authority_id=XX853571 http://d-nb.info/gnd/118511513 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095331 http://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00433456 http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000000012096135X http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/178705 http://viaf.org/viaf/54144439 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500012489 http://www.idref.fr/026730626/id https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h132g2 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41513 Blake, William, 1757-1827 Uil'iam Bleik William Blake Blake William, 1757–1827 William Blake, 1757–1827 William Blake, 1757–1827 7011413 7011781 7011781 British 1757 1827 male 300025103 Artist 300112172 draftsman (artist) 300025165 engraver (printmaker) 300025123 illustrator 300025136 painter 300025569 philosopher 300025513 poet 300025164 printmaker 300025157 watercolorist 300025492 writer Text by Thomas Gray, 1716–1771, British ycba_actor_30156 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG29684 Thomas Gray Gray Thomas, 1716–1771 Thomas Gray, 1716–1771 Text by Thomas Gray, 1716–1771 British 1716 1771 male 300025103 Artist 300025513 poet Text by 300111159 British between 1797 and 1798 1797 1798 22 18th century Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page 300011098 graphite 300014187 wove paper 300015045 watercolor black ink William Blake: Burning Bright (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07) 1122 https://britishart.yale.edu/node/2330/edit 300054766 exhibition William Blake: Burning Bright Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 201 Yale Center for British Art BAC YCBA British Art Center 1977 0 2025-09-04 - 2025-12-07 2025-09-04 2025-12-07 Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300435424 One of the most compelling figures in the history of British art and poetry, William Blake (1757–1827) developed an idiosyncratic worldview during a tumultuous era that witnessed the American and French Revolutions. He expressed his radical perspectives on religious belief, politics, and society through highly original illuminated books, watercolors, paintings, and poetry. This exhibition showcases the Yale Center for British Art’s impressive collection of works by Blake, with special focus on the inventive hand-printed publications that bring to life his poetry and prophecies. --- --- The YCBA’s extensive holdings include Blake’s most innovative and celebrated books, such as Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789–94) and The First Book of Urizen (1794). Blake’s mastery of watercolor painting and his phenomenal imaginative powers are evident in the one-of-a-kind illustrations for The Poems of Thomas Gray (between 1797 and 1798) and in the only fully hand-colored version of his culminating poem, the 100-page Jerusalem (1804–20). This stunning presentation highlights the artist’s ambitious vision and skill, as well as his unparalleled contributions to art, literature, and spirituality. --- --- About William Blake --- Born in London at a time of major social change and upheaval, Blake aspired to be an artist and a poet from a young age. During his apprenticeship, he developed an elegant black-and-white engraving style that he deployed in both commissioned and original prints and book illustrations. He is best known for devising an unorthodox technique to create colorful illuminated books that merged his poetry and his art. His most notable innovation was a method for printing text and image from a single copper plate. Blake’s work was largely unacknowledged during his lifetime, yet today his striking imagery and stirring words are widely celebrated. Yale Center for British Art The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06) 635 https://britishart.yale.edu/node/716 300054766 exhibition The Human Form Divine - William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 201 British Art Center Yale Center for British Art BAC YCBA 1977 0 63 Organizer 1997-04-02 - 1997-07-06 1997-04-02 1997-07-06 Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300435424 In the spring of 1997, the Center celebrated its twentieth anniversary with an exhibition of its incomparable collection of illuminated books, engravings, and drawings by William Blake. The Center’s founder, Paul Mellon (Yale College, Class of 1929), assembled a rich and remarkable group of works over a lifetime of personal involvement with the poetry and art of this romantic paragon. For this comprehensive survey of the collection, several of the Center’s twelve illuminated books were exhibited in their entirety for the first time. These included Blake’s masterwork, the unique, colored copy of Jerusalem, two copies of the pastoral Songs of Innocence, and the prophetic Songs of Experience, Book of Urizen, Book of Thel, and America a Prophecy. Blake’s work as a painter was represented by individual tempera paintings from his series of illustrations to the Bible commissioned by Thomas Butts. A generous selection of forty sheets from the watercolor illustrations to the Poems of Thomas Gray revealed the magnificent range of Blake’s interpretive genius and the brilliance of his watercolor technique. — — Credits — — Patrick Noon, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Rare Books at the Center, organized this special exhibition, which was accompanied by a catalogue illustrated in color. Yale Center for British Art 3627 99116777493408651 11677749 V 1245 2887 300054686 publication event 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 Yale Center for British Art Colin Cross ycba_actor_11725 Cross Colin 300025492 Author November 21, 1971 1971 1971 3627 10177030 871817413 Illustrated London News Historical Archive 2880 300054686 publication event 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 Yale Center for British Art Arnold Fawcus, 1917–1979, British ycba_actor_7116 Trianon Press Fawcus Arnold 300025492 Author December 25, 1971 1971 1971 3627 300157782 acquisition Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 YCBA BAC Yale Center for British Art British Art Center 1977 0 300203630 Owner 1992 1992 1992 300138913 gift ycba_term_2036426 serpents ycba_term_2036427 snakes ycba_term_2046880 literary theme ycba_term_2046879 religious and mythological subject ycba_term_2036873 pointing 300025943 ycba_term_7002 women 300252827 ycba_term_47044 witch 300009910 ycba_term_1759 flames 300250810 ycba_term_16788 text 300008746 ycba_term_32385 cave 300024668 ycba_term_144545 knives 300037058 ycba_term_145917 daggers 300255555 ycba_term_145802 whips 300209991 ycba_term_21409 shawls 300217658 ycba_term_2036218 shawl 300215011 ycba_term_44715 shroud 300068986 300068986 ycba_term_39104 fire 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 99116777493408651 11677749 V 1245 2887 related to 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 10177030 871817413 Illustrated London News Historical Archive 2880 related to 300055603 500303557 Yale Center for British Art https://britishart.yale.edu Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 300055598 Public Domain 300435434 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 3627 300133025 Volume 500303557 Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3627 oai:tms.ycba.yale.edu:3627 https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/v2/ycba/obj/3627 https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/3627 IIIF manifest Yale Center for British Art 500303557 Yale Center for British Art