- Title:
- My Pretty Rose Tree (Plate 47)
- 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 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches (11.1 x 7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "33"; in graphite, lower center: "47"
Lettered inside image, upper center: "My Pretty ROSE TREE | A flower was offered to me; | Such a flower as May never bore. | But I said I've a Pretty Rose-tree, | And I passed the sweet flower o'er. | Then I went to my Pretty Rose-tree: | To tend her by day and by night. | But my Rose turnd away with jealousy: | And her thorns were my only delight."; center: "AH! SUN-FLOWER | Ah Sun-flower! weary of time. | Who countest the steps of the Sun: | Seeking after that sweet golden clime | Where the travellers journey is done. | Where the Youth pined away with desire, | And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow: | Arise from their graves and aspire. | Where my Sun-flower wishes to go."; lower center: "THE LILLY | The modest Rose puts forth a thorn: | The humble Sheep, a threatning horn: | While the Lilly white, shall in Love delight, | Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty | bright"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1578
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- birds | branches | historical subject | kneeling | leaf | text | trees | vegetation | vines | 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:2524
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