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William Blake earned his place as the patron saint of all freethinking outsider artists. One might say he perfected the role as he perfected his art—or his arts rather, since his poetry inspires as much awe and acclaim as his visionary engravings and illustrations.

William Blake

A selection of paintings showing Blake’s strength in design beyond normal artistic composition – a very modern feature.

William Blake (1757–1827), Title: The Genius of Shakespeare, Watercolor, 1809, In the collection of the British Museum, London

william blake monotypes | William Blake | The First Book of Urizen | 1794 | The Morgan Library ...

Songs of Innocence and Experience, cover illustrated by WB

The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the main character of Adam Sachs’s debut novel, The Organs of Sense, had a minor obsession with

Titania, Oberon and Puck with fairies dancing, 1796 This latest posting examines the poet William Blake’s conceptions of fairies. This is to mark the publication of my latest book, Albion aw…

William Blake - Joy

This watercolor copy after Phillips's portrait of Blake, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, was included by Thomas Butts in his portfolio containing Blake's twenty-one illustrations to the Book of Job.

‘Milton lovd me in childhood & shewd me his face’ – William Bake on John Milton, September 1800 William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) created three sets of illustrations for John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667). There was a commission from the Reverend Joseph Thomas in 1807; another a year later commissioned … Continue reading "William Blake’s Illustrations for Milton’s Paradise Lost – 1808"

In 1892, architect W.R. Lethaby wrote: “The main purpose and burden of sacred architecture - and all architecture, temple, tomb, or palace...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has always been a place of surprises, which has made it an absolutely fitting place for “William Blake: Apprentice and Master,” an exhibition that is at once didactic and very strange. The exhibition left me dazed by the technical detail but aware that I would never look at a Blake work in the same way again.

William Blake

William Blake - To See a World...

1. Where did William Blake live between 1800-1803? Answer: Outside of London 2. When Blake’s work really got discovered, what did people think of him? Answer: People thought Blake was confused, weird, and mad. 3. How many times were William Blake married? Answer: William Blake was married to one woman all his life. 4. What did William Blake provide with his poems? Answer: Illustrations 5. William Blake and his wife did everything in making what book? Answer: Songs of Innocence (1789)