After William Blake
1757-1827
The Fly
5 x 4 1/2 inches (127 x 114 mm)
Black chalk on tracing paper mounted on card.
1980.79:10
Gift of Mr. Herman Cohen.
Notes
Copy on tracing paper by an unknown copyist of William Blake's design for his poem "The fly", from his Songs of innocence and of experience.
Summary
Traced sketch shows a female figure in a gown and cap, holding the hands of a gowned infant, guiding its steps; to the left, a gowned female child hitting a shuttlecock with a racquet.
Associated names
Blake, William, 1757-1827. Songs of experience.
Cohen, Herman, former owner.
Cohen, Herman, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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