- Title:
- The Ecchoing Green (Plate 8)
- Additional Title(s):
- Verso: The Ecchoing Green (Plate 9)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F
- Date:
- 1789
- Materials & Techniques:
- Relief etching printed in green ink, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (18.4 x 12.1 cm), Plate: 4 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches (11.1 x 7.3 cm), Plate: 4 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches (11.1 x 7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "6"
Lettered inside image: "The Ecchoing Green | The Sun does arise, | And make happy the skies. | The merry bells ring | To welcome the Spring. | The sky-lark and thrush, | The birds of the bush, | Sing louder around, | To the bells chearful sound. | While our sports shall be seen | On the Ecchoing Green. | Old John with white hair | Does laugh away care, | Sitting under the oak. | Among the old folk. | They"; Lettered on verso, inside image: "They laugh at our play, | And soon they all say, | Such such were the joys. | When we all girls & boys. | In our youth-time were seen, | On the Ecchoing Green. | Till the little ones weary | No more can be merry | The [sun] does descend, | And our sports have an end: | Round the laps of their mothers. | Many sisters and brothers, | Like birds in their nest. | Are ready for rest: | And sport no more seen, | On the darkening Green."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1551
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- ball | bat | branches | children | food | fruit | grapes | historical subject | hoop | kite | leaf | men | sitting | stick | text | trees | vine | walking | women
- 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:2485
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William Blake - His Art & Times (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982-12-03 - 1983-02-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
William Blake - His Art & Times (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-09-15 - 1982-11-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Michael Sanders, God Save the Ecchoing Green: The Uses of Imaginary Nostalgia in Willilam Blake and Ray Davies, Visual Culture in Britain, 19, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, England, p. 353, fig. 2, N6761 V57 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]