Open Edition Print.
A3 Unframed (420mm x 297mm).
Adapted from an original charcoal drawing, this design is inspired by a moment in Book I of The Prelude when the young poet, swept up in the brightness of lake and sunlight, feels a sudden inner clarity. Amid quick, childlike delight, the world breaks open with a sharp gleam—“like the flashing of a shield”—and the ordinary landscape speaks with unexpected force.
Wordsworth’s own lines shape the spirit of the work, and are included as a part of an authentication certificate included with each print:
...yet have I stood,
Even while mine eye hath moved o’er many a league
Of shining water, gathering as it seemed
Through every hair-breadth in that field of light
New pleasure like a bee among the flowers.
Thus oft amid those fits of vulgar joy
Which, through all seasons, on a child’s pursuits
Are prompt attendants, ‘mid that giddy bliss
Which, like a tempest, works along the blood
And is forgotten; even then I felt
Gleams like the flashing of a shield; the earth
And common face of Nature spake to me
Rememberable things.
Printed on a high quality 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, The Flashing Shield offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Editions series.
Open Edition Print.
A3 Unframed (420mm x 297mm).
Adapted from an original charcoal drawing, this design is inspired by a moment in Book I of The Prelude when the young poet, swept up in the brightness of lake and sunlight, feels a sudden inner clarity. Amid quick, childlike delight, the world breaks open with a sharp gleam—“like the flashing of a shield”—and the ordinary landscape speaks with unexpected force.
Wordsworth’s own lines shape the spirit of the work, and are included as a part of an authentication certificate included with each print:
...yet have I stood,
Even while mine eye hath moved o’er many a league
Of shining water, gathering as it seemed
Through every hair-breadth in that field of light
New pleasure like a bee among the flowers.
Thus oft amid those fits of vulgar joy
Which, through all seasons, on a child’s pursuits
Are prompt attendants, ‘mid that giddy bliss
Which, like a tempest, works along the blood
And is forgotten; even then I felt
Gleams like the flashing of a shield; the earth
And common face of Nature spake to me
Rememberable things.
Printed on a high quality 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, The Flashing Shield offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Editions series.
