Songs of Innocence: Frontispiece, ca. 1825, Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and gold, sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm), Prints, William Blake (British, London 1757–1827 London), This frontispiece to Songs of Innocence illustrates Blake's 'Introduction,' a poem that casts the poet as a wandering piper inspired by the vision of a divine child: 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 cheer
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Songs, Innocence, Frontispiece, ca, 1825, Relief etching printed, orange-brown ink, hand-colored, watercolor, gold, sheet, 6 3/16 x 5 9/16, 15.7 14.1 cm, Prints, William Blake, British, London, 1757–1827, frontispiece, Innocence illustrates, Blake, Introduction, poem, casts, poet, wandering piper, inspired, vision, divine child, Piping down, valleys wild, songs, pleasant glee, cloud I, saw, child, laughing said, me, Pipe, song, Lamb!, I piped, merry cheer
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