Print made by William Blake, 1757–1827, BritishHand colored by William Blake, 1757–1827, BritishText by Edward Young, 1683–1765, BritishPublished by Richard Edwards, active 1796–1797, British
Title:
'That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul' (Page 90)
Date:
ca. 1797
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "90 | 'Tis this makes joy a duty to the wise; | 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad. | Seest thou, LORENZO! where hangs all our hope? | Touch'd by the cross we live;--or more than die: | That touch, which touch'd not angels; more divine | Than that which touch'd confusion into form | And darkness into glory; partial touch! | Ineffably pre-eminent regard | Sacred to man! and sovereign, through the whole | Long golden chain of miracles which hangs | From heaven through all duration, and supports | In one illustrious and amazing plan! | Thy welfare, nature! and thy GOD's renown! | *That touch, with charm celestial heals the soul | Diseased, drives pain from guilt, lights life in death, | Turns earth to heaven, to heavenly thrones transforms | The ghastly ruins of the mouldering tomb! | Dost ask me when? when HE who died returns:-- | Returns, how changed! where then the man of woe? | In glory's terrors all the godhead burns; | And all his courts, exhausted by the tide | Of deities triumphant in his train, | Leave a stupendous solitude in heaven; | Replenish'd soon, replenish'd with increase | Of pomp and multitude, a radiant band | Of angels new, of angels from the tomb. | Is this by fancy thrown remote? and rise Dark doubts between the promise and event? | I send thee not to volumes for thy cure, | Read nature; nature is a friend to truth;"; center right: "in. & s | WB"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.43.1414
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
literary theme | text | men | nudes
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)