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Songs of Innocence: Night (second plate)

William Blake · [1789] printed ca. 1825

Artist: William Blake
Date: [1789] printed ca. 1825
Medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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