One day in 1801, when William Blake was living on the Sussex coast, he went on a long country walk when he got into an argument with a thistle. The artist, poet and musician, who experienced ...
William Blake was a deeply religious man who had a fascination with Christian mysticism, which informed his huge body of works "New light" will be shed on the English Romantic artist and poet ...
You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated ...
The inscription reads simply: William Blake 1757-1827. Blake was born on 28th November 1757 in London, a son of James Blake (d.1784), a hosier, and his wife Catherine. He was an apprentice engraver to ...