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- Title:
- "Leaning against the pillars..." (Plate 32)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E
- Date:
- 1804 to 1820
- Materials & Techniques:
- Relief etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm), Plate: 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (22.3 x 16.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "32"
Lettered inside image: "Leaning against the pillars, & his disease rose from his skirts | Upon the Precipice he stood; ready to fall into Non-Entity. | Los was all astonishment & terror; he trembled sitting on the Stone | Of London; but the interiors of Albion's fibres & nerves were hidden | From Los; astonish'd he beheld only the petrified surfaces; | And saw his Furnaces in ruins, for Los is the Demon of the Furnaces. | He saw also the Four Points of Albion revers'd inwards: | He siez'd his Hammer & Tongs, his iron Poker & his Bellows, | Upon the valleys of Middlesex, Shouting loud for aid Divine. | In stern defiance came from Albion's bosom Hand, Hyle, Koban, | Gwantoc, Peachey, Brertun, Slaid, Hutton, Skofeld, Kock, Kotope, | Bowen; Albion's Sons; they bore him a golden couch into the porch, | And on the Couch repos'd his limbs, trembling from the bloody field, | Rearing their Druid Patriarchal rocky Temples around his limbs. | (All thing begin & end, in Albion's Ancient Druid Rocky Shore.)"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.1(32)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- church | clouds | literary theme | nudes | religious and mythological subject | smoke | spires | text | women
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3462
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