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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.31843#0109
CATALOGUE OF BLAKE'S ENGRAVED DESIGNS
180. General Title.
Eve lies fallen on the ground, and Adam bends over her lamenting.
Flames spring around them and about the title above Songs of Inno-
cence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human
SouL
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181. Frontispiece.
A shepherd-boy comes between trees, followed by his sheep ; he
looks up, pipe in hand, to listen to the child who flies above him.
4§ X 2! in.
182. Title-page.
A mother sits left with two children at her knee. At the right a
tree amid the branches of which is the title Songs of Innocence. Below,
The Author & Printer W Blake.
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183. Introduction.
On either side of the text are interlacing branches forming oval
spaces in which are figures of children.
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184. The Shepherd.
A shepherd holding a crook looks down on his flock; at the right
a tree, and a hedgerow in the distance. Poem above.
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185. The Ecchoing Green.
Round the stem of a shady tree are mothers seated with children
at their knees, Boys play games beyond. Poem below, with vine-
tendrils, a boy bowling a hoop, right, and a boy with a cricket bat,
left.
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186. The same continued.
A father and mother leading boys and girls into a field. One boy
has a kite, another a cricket bat. At the right a vine, on a branch of
which a boy reclines and hands a bunch of grapes to another below.
At the left a child reaches up to pluck a cluster. Text between these
figures.
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180. General Title.
Eve lies fallen on the ground, and Adam bends over her lamenting.
Flames spring around them and about the title above Songs of Inno-
cence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human
SouL
4§ X 2f in.
181. Frontispiece.
A shepherd-boy comes between trees, followed by his sheep ; he
looks up, pipe in hand, to listen to the child who flies above him.
4§ X 2! in.
182. Title-page.
A mother sits left with two children at her knee. At the right a
tree amid the branches of which is the title Songs of Innocence. Below,
The Author & Printer W Blake.
4! X 2| in.
183. Introduction.
On either side of the text are interlacing branches forming oval
spaces in which are figures of children.
4i X3i in.
184. The Shepherd.
A shepherd holding a crook looks down on his flock; at the right
a tree, and a hedgerow in the distance. Poem above.
4§ X 2f in.
185. The Ecchoing Green.
Round the stem of a shady tree are mothers seated with children
at their knees, Boys play games beyond. Poem below, with vine-
tendrils, a boy bowling a hoop, right, and a boy with a cricket bat,
left.
4f X 2§ in.
186. The same continued.
A father and mother leading boys and girls into a field. One boy
has a kite, another a cricket bat. At the right a vine, on a branch of
which a boy reclines and hands a bunch of grapes to another below.
At the left a child reaches up to pluck a cluster. Text between these
figures.
4t X2§ in.
89