- Title:
- "My Lade rose, and with a grace– She smil'd, and bid him come to dinner..." (Design 33)
- Additional Title(s):
Verso: "And guard us from long-winded Lubbers..." (Design 34)
A Long Story- Part Of:
- Date:
- between 1797 and 1798
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink upper right: "11"; in graphite center: "x"; on verso in gray ink upper left: "12"; in graphite center: "x"
Lettered on inlaid page: "A LONG STORY. 73 | Yet something he was heard to mutter, | 'How in the Park beneath an old tree, | '(Without design to hurt the butter, | 'Or any malice to the poultry,) | 'He once or twice had penn'd a sonnet; | 'Yet hop'd that he might save his bacon: | 'Numbers would give their oaths upon it, | ''He ne'er was for a conj'rer taken.' | The ghostly prudes with hagged face | Already had condemn'd the sinner, | My Lady rose, and with a grace-- | She smil'd, and bid him come to dinner. | 'Jesu-Maria! Madam Bridget, | 'Why what can the Viscountess mean?' | (Cried the square Hoods in woeful fidget) | 'The times are alter'd quite and clean! | 'Decorum's"; Lettered on verso, on inlaid page: "74 A LONG STORY. | 'Decorum's turned to mere civility; | 'Her air and all her Manners shew it. | 'Commend me to her affability! | 'Speak to a Commoner and Poet!' | [Here 500 Stanzas are lost.] | And so God save our noble King, | And guard us from long-winded Lubbers, | That to eternity would sing, | And keep my Lady from her Rubbers. | ODE"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.11(17)
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cards | chair | dresses | games, card | groups, social | hats | literary theme | man | men | pew | sermon | table | text | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3621
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Colin Cross, Blake revealed, William Blake : Discovery of a Masterwork , Observer, vol. 12, November 21, 1971, pp. 19-23, V 1245 Detached from Observer colour magazine [ORBIS]
John Russell, Blake the Craftsman, Art , Sunday Times, Issue no. 7749, December 12, 1971, p. 27, Sunday Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]
Arnold Fawcus, Unknown Watercolours by William Blake, Illustrated London News, vol. 259, No. 6881, December 25, 1971, pp. 45-46, 49-51, Illustrated London News Historical Archive [ORBIS]