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- Title:
- "And One stood forth from the Divine Family..." (Plate 37)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E
- Date:
- 1804 to 1820
- Materials & Techniques:
- Relief and white-line 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 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches (22.6 x 16.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "37"
Lettered inside image: "And One stood forth from the Divine family & said: | I feel my Spectre rising upon me! Albion! arouze thyself! | Why dost thou thunder with frozen Spectrous wrath against us? | The Spectre is, in Giant Man, insane, and most deform'd. | Thou wilt certainly provoke my Spectre against thine in fury! | He has a Sepulcher hewn out of a Rock ready for thee: | And a Death of Eight thousand years forg'd by thyself, upon | The point of his Spear! if thou persistest to forbid with Laws | Our Emanations, and to attack our secret supreme delights. | So Los spoke: But when he saw blue death in Albion's feet | Again he join'd the Divine Body, following, merciful, | While Albion fled more indignant: revengeful covering..."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.1(37)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- beard | branches | dead | death | leaf | literary theme | men | moon | nudes | religious and mythological subject | sky | stars | sun | text | text | trees | wings | women
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3467
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