Sketch for "The Thought of Death alone, the Fear Destroys"

c. 1795 Sheet: 17 x 30.8 cm (6 11/16 x 12 1/8 in.) Source image
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This sketch of a shepherd sleeping with his dog at the edge of a precipice relates to one of the nearly 550 watercolors that William Blake created for the 1797 edition of Edward Young’s The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts, a long poem about death and salvati...

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