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A Poison Tree,

From Songs of Experience

Relief etching printed in black ink on J. Whatman (1831?) paper

Print impression quality: Good

Dimensions (Plate): 113 x 70 mm (4.4 x 2.8 in.)

Edition: Edition printed ca. 1831, published 1831; probably from a book broken up by Weyhe Gallery, New York, ca. 1931 according to G. E. Bently, Blake Books, 1977, pp. 370, 429

Accession number: 1937.D1.91

Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1937

Provenance / Collectors' marks: Charles Eliot Norton

Bibliography: Binyon 228; for relief etching, see Binyon pp. 9–16.

Work Type: print

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