Relief etching printed in brown ink, with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (19.1 x 13.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "Introduction | Piping down the valleys wild | Piping songs of pleasant glee | On a cloud I saw a child. | And he laughing said to me. | Pipe a song about a Lamb. | So I piped with merry chear. | Piper pipe that song again -- | So I piped, he wept to hear. | Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe | Sing thy songs of happy chear. | So I sung the same again | While he wept with joy to hear | Piper sit thee down and write | In a book that all may read -- | So he vanish'd from my sight. | And I pluck'd a hollow reed. | And I made a rural pen, | And I stain'd the water clear, | And I wrote my happy songs, | Every child may joy to hear"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1992.8.12(3)
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
leaf | branches | literary theme | text | trees | vine | woman