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Watercolor by William Blake: a winged woman in a white robe spreads her arms beside a printed title panel, with stars and spires against a grey sky.

The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 93, "Ode for Music."

A winged female figure with long hair and a flowing white robe spreads her arms against a grey wash sky dotted with stars. A rectangular printed panel names the 1769 Cambridge Senate-House performance, and distant spires rise along the bottom edge in pen and watercolor.

Artist
William Blake
Date
1797
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
3083 × 4000 px
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Public domain · William Blake died 1827 and the work dates by 1797; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier B · as stated by the source: Public domain

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): William Blake, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Español: Oda para música de Blake: figura alada y panel de título

Una figura femenina alada, de cabello largo y túnica blanca y fluida, extiende los brazos sobre un cielo gris de aguada salpicado de estrellas. Un panel impreso rectangular menciona la interpretación de 1769 en la Senate-House de Cambridge, y al pie se alzan campanarios lejanos en tinta y acuarela.

Português: Ode for Music de Blake: figura alada e painel de título

Uma figura feminina alada, de cabelos longos e túnica branca e fluida, abre os braços diante de um céu cinza em aguada, pontilhado de estrelas. Um painel impresso retangular menciona a apresentação de 1769 na Senate-House de Cambridge, e ao longo da base erguem-se torres distantes em tinta e aquarela.

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