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- Title:
- "The shrill winds wake!..." (Plate 6)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1794
- Materials & Techniques:
- Color-printed relief and white-line 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 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches (23.2 x 16.5 cm), Spine: 15 3/8 inches (39.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink upper right: "4"
Lettered upper center: "The shrill winds wake Till all the sons of Urizen look out and envy Los: Sieze all the spirits of life and bind Their warbling joys to our loud strings | Bind all the nourishing sweets of earth To give us bliss, that we may drink the sparkling wine of Los And let us laugh at war, Despising toil and care, Because the days and nights of joy, in lucky hours renew. | Arise O Orc from thy deep den, First born of Enitharmon rise! And we will crown thy head with garlands of the ruddy vine; For now thou art bound; And I may see thee in the hour of bliss, my eldest born. | The horrent Demon rose, surrounded with red stars of fire, Whirling about in furious circles round the immortal fiend. Then Enitharmon down descended into his red light. And thus her voice rose to her children, the distant heavens reply."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.4(6)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- clouds | dancing | fire | flames | men | nudes | religious and mythological subject | text | women
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3892
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Andrew Burkett, Romantic Mediations : Media Theory and British Romanticism, State University of New York Press, Albany, p. 97, fig. 3.4, PR447 .B77 2016 (LC) [ORBIS]