- Title:
- The Chimney Sweeper (Plate 45)
- 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 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (11.4 x 7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "31"; in graphite, lower center: "45"
Lettered inside image: "THE Chimney Sweeper | A little black thing among the snow: | Crying weep, weep, in notes of woe! | Where are thy father & mother? say? | They are both gone up to the church to pray. | Because I was happy upon the heath. | And smil'd among the winters snow: | They clothed me in the clothes of death. | And taught me to sing the notes of woe. | And because I am happy. & dance & sing. | They think they have done me no injury; | And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King. | Who make up a heaven of our misery."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1576
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bag | children | clouds | historical subject | houses | rain | street | text | 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:2522
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