- Title:
- The Lamb (Plate 8)
- Additional Title(s):
- Verso: The Blossom (Plate 9)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1789
- Materials & Techniques:
- Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor and pen and black 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 5/8 x 3 inches (11.7 x 7.6 cm), Plate: 4 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches (11.1 x 7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "The Lamb | Little Lamb who made thee | Dost thou know who made thee | Gave thee life & bid thee feed. | By the stream & o'er the mead; | Gave thee clothing of delight, | Softest clothing wooly bright; | Gave thee such a tender voice, | Making all the vales rejoice: | Little Lamb who made thee | Dost thou know who made thee | Little Lamb I'll tell thee, | Little Lamb I'll tell thee; | He is called by thy name, | For he calls himself a Lamb: | He is meek & he is mild, | He became a little child: | I a child & thou a lamb. | We are called by his name. | Little Lamb God bless thee, | Little Lamb God bless thee."; Lettered on verso, inside image: "The Blossom. | Merry Merry Sparrow | Under leaves so green | A happy Blossom | Sees you swift as arrow | Seek your cradle narrow | Near my Bosom. | Pretty Pretty Robin | Under leaves so green | A happy Blossom | Hears you sobbing sobbing | Pretty Pretty Robin | Near my Bosom."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.12(6)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- angels | book | boy | branches | cherubs | children | clouds | house | lamb | leaf | literary theme | mother | nude | plant | reading | sheep | shepherd | text | trees | vegetation | vines | wings | woman
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3724
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Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, British, The Lamb (Plate 8), 1789
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