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A6 Fine Art Postcard.
This design is adapted from an original charcoal drawing, part of the Prelude Editions series. It takes its inspiration from Wordsworth’s recollection of wandering the open downs of Sarum’s Plain in Book VIII of the 1850 version of The Prelude, where solitude and landscape stirred in him an imaginative vision of deep ancestral time.
Wordsworth’s own lines frame the work and are included on the reverse side of the postcard:
...To a hope
Not less ambitious once among the wilds
Of Sarum’s Plain, my youthful spirit was raised;
There, as I ranged at will the pastoral downs
Trackless and smooth, or paced the bare white roads
Lengthening in solitude their dreary line,
Time with his retinue of ages fled
Backwards, nor checked his flight until I saw
Our dim ancestral Past in vision clear;
Saw multitudes of men, and, here and there,
A single Briton clothed in wolf-skin vest,
With shield and stone-axe, stride across the wold.
Printed on 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, The Vision of Sarum’s Plain offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Edition series.
A6 Fine Art Postcard.
This design is adapted from an original charcoal drawing, part of the Prelude Editions series. It takes its inspiration from Wordsworth’s recollection of wandering the open downs of Sarum’s Plain in Book VIII of the 1850 version of The Prelude, where solitude and landscape stirred in him an imaginative vision of deep ancestral time.
Wordsworth’s own lines frame the work and are included on the reverse side of the postcard:
...To a hope
Not less ambitious once among the wilds
Of Sarum’s Plain, my youthful spirit was raised;
There, as I ranged at will the pastoral downs
Trackless and smooth, or paced the bare white roads
Lengthening in solitude their dreary line,
Time with his retinue of ages fled
Backwards, nor checked his flight until I saw
Our dim ancestral Past in vision clear;
Saw multitudes of men, and, here and there,
A single Briton clothed in wolf-skin vest,
With shield and stone-axe, stride across the wold.
Printed on 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, The Vision of Sarum’s Plain offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Edition series.