- Title:
- Earth's Answer (Plate 35)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Copy F
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Color-printed relief etching, 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 3/4 x 2 7/8 inches (12.1 x 7.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "21"; in graphite, lower center: "35"
Lettered inside image: "EARTH'S Answer. | Earth raisd up her head, | From the darkness dread & drear. | Her light fled; | Stony dread! | And her locks cover'd with grey despair. | Prison'd on watry shore | Starry Jealousy does keep my den | Cold and hoar | Weeping o'er | I hear the father of the ancient men | Selfish father of men | Cruel jealous selfish fear | Can delight | Chain'd in night | The virgins of youth and morning bear. | Does spring hide its joy | When buds and blossoms grow? | Does the sower? | Sow by night? | Or the plowman in darkness plow? | Break this heavy chain. | That does freeze my bones around | Selfish! vain! | Eternal bane! | That free Love with bandage bound."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1566
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- branches | fruit | historical subject | leaf | serpent | snake | text | vegetation | vines
- 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:2513
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