William blake

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Exhibition dates: 11th September 2019 – 2nd February 2020 Visited October 2019 posted February 2020 Curators: Martin Myrone, Senior Curator, pre-1800 British Art, and Amy Concannon, Curator, …

William Blake

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William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, to James, a hosier, and Catherine Blake. Two of his six siblings died in infancy. From early childhood, Blake spoke of having visions—at four he saw God “put his head to the window”; around age nine, while walking through the countryside, he saw a tree filled with angels. Although his parents tried to discourage him from “lying,” they did observe that he was different from his peers and did not force him to attend a conventional school…

In his 1793 engraving, the poet and artist finds a novel solution to getting to the moon: a really big ladder

William Blake. Epitome of James Hervey's Meditations Among the Tombs. 1825

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.