BLAKE, William

• ‘The Blighted Corn’ and ‘Nor Fox, nor Wolf, nor Rat among our Sheep’. The Pastorals of Virgil. Fine lithograph of Blake’s 1821 engravings, published in London, 1902.  

Description

• Lithographic prints of the original 1821 woodcuts. Excepting very light toning to the sheet’s extremities, bright and clean throughout.

• Upper image: The Blighted Corn; landscape composition depicting stormy weather, a crescent moon, and wind flattening a field of grain beside a twisted tree. It is a metaphor for Colinet's misfortunes.

• Lower image: Nor Fox, nor Wolf, nor Rat among our Sheep; depicts a solitary shepherdess with upraised arms defending her fold from nocturnal predators amidst rolling hills.

• Framed and glazed; with UV-resistant art glass. Sheet, 20.1x13.2cm; external, 24.7x17.8cm.