Songs of Innocence: Frontispiece, William Blake, ca. 1825
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. ( x 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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