Design 51, "The Progress of Poesy", from William Blake's The Poems of Thomas Gray (1797–98).
Featured on PDR in the collection Rainbows in Art
Depictions spanning more than 800 years – in chronological order – of that most enigmatic of weather phenomena, the rainbow: from Noah's sign and the Book of Revelation, through to 18th-century optics, the epic landscapes of Romanticism, and modernist abstraction.
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Yet Oft Before His Infant Eyes Would Run Such Forms as Glitter in the Muse's Ray...
Artist
Date
1797–8
From
The Poems of Thomas Gray
Image Size
799 x 1024
