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- Title:
- "Enitharmon slept. ..." (Plate 10)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Color-printed relief etching with oil, watercolor, and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37.5 x 26.7 cm), Plate: 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (23.5 x 17.1 cm), Spine: 15 3/8 inches (39.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink upper right: "8"
Lettered lower center: "Enitharmon slept, Eighteen hundred years. Man was a Dream! The night of Nature and their harps unstrung. She slept in middle of her nightly song, Eighteen hundred years, a female dream. | Shadows of men in fleeting bands upon the winds Divide the heavens of Europe: Till Albion’s Angel smitten with his own plagues fled with his bands The cloud bears hard on Albion’s shore: Fill’d with immortal demons of futurity: In council gather the smitten Angels of Albion The cloud bears hard upon the council house, down rushing On the heads of Albion’s Angels. | One hour they lay buried beneath the ruins of that hall; But as the stars rise from the salt lake they arise in pain, In troubled mists o’erclouded by the terrors of struggling times."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.4(10)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- branches | leaf | men | nudes | religious and mythological subject | text | vines | women
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3884
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