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- Title:
- "From Camberwell to Highgate where the mighty Thames shudders along..." (Plate 47)
- 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, pen and black ink, and gold 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 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches (21.2 x 16.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "From Camberwell to Highgate where the mighty Thames shudders along, | Where Los's Furnaces stand, where Jerusalem & Vala howl: | Luvah tore forth from Albion's Loins, in fibrous veins, in rivers | Of blood over Europe: a Vegetating Root in grinding pain, | Animating the Dragon Temples soon to become that Holy Fiend | The Wicker Man of Scandinavia, in which cruelly consumed | The Captives rear'd to heaven howl in flames among the stars. | Loud the cries of War on the Rhine & Danube, with Albion's Sons. | Away from Beulah's hills & vales break forth the Souls of the Dead, | With cymbal, trumpet, clarion, & the scythed chariots of Britain. | And the Veil of Vala is composed of the Spectres of the Dead. | Hark! the mingling cries of Luvah with the Sons of Albion. | Hark! & Record the terrible wonder! that the Punisher | Mingles with his Victim's Spectre, enslaved & tormented | To him whom he has murder'd, bound in vengeance & enmity. | Shudder not, but Write, & the hand of God will assist you ! | Therefore I write Albion's last words. Hope is banish'd from me. | These"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.1(47)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- literary theme | men | net | nudes | religious and mythological subject | text | web | women
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3478
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