- Title:
- The Ecchoing Green (Plate 10)
- Additional Title(s):
- Verso: The Ecchoing Green (Plate 11)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1789
- Materials & Techniques:
- Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm), Plate: 4 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches (11.1 x 7 cm), Plate: 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches (11.4 x 7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "The Ecchoing Green | The Sun does arise, | And make happy the skies. | The merry bells ring | To welcome the Spring. | The sky-lark and thrush, | The birds of the brush, | Sing louder around, | To the bells chearful sound. | While our sports shall be seen | On the Ecchoing Green. | Old John with white hair | Does laugh away care, | Sitting under the oak. | Among the old folk, | They"; Lettered on verso, inside image: "They laugh at our play, | And soon they all say, | Such such were the joys. | When we all girls & boys, | In our youth time were seen, | On the Ecchoing Green. | Till the little ones weary | No more can be merry | The sun does descend, | And our sports have an end: | Round the laps of their mothers. | Many sisters and brothers, | Like birds in their nest. | Are ready for rest; | And sport no more seen, | On the darkening Green."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.12(7)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- ball | bat | branches | child | children | fruit | grapes | hoop | kite | leaf | literary theme | men | mother | sitting | stick | text | tree | vine | walking | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3696
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British, The Ecchoing Green (Plate 10), 1789
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