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 (f… ...

William Blake: Visionary Through Jan. 14, 2024, at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles; 310-440-7300; getty.edu. A correction was made on Dec. 30, 2023 ...

William Blake, “Songs of Innocence and of Experience,” Plate 2, Innocence Title Page (Bentley 3), 1789, left, and “Songs of Innocence and of Experience,” Plate 33, Experience Title Page ...

William Blake was an artisanal imagemaker dubbed a 'lunatic' during Britain's Industrial Revolution. The Getty Museum has other ideas in its new exhibition.

William Blake (1757–1827) was an English engraver, artist and poet renowned for his visionary works. Born in London, he created iconic poems like 'The Lamb,' 'The Tyger,' and the stirring ...

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 ...

MELANIE MCDONAGH: We all know William Blake, right? Last week, crowds at the Last Night Of The Proms bawled out the words of Jerusalem to the bombastic tune of Hubert Parry.

William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips. Photograph: Ann Ronan/Print Collector/Getty . Philip Hoare. Wed Apr 30 2025 - 05:00. Was William Blake, long regarded as one of the greatest ...

In February 1818, Samuel Taylor Cole-ridge was sent a copy of Songs of Innocence, William Blake’s first illustrated book of poems, which had been published some 30 years earlier.He was both impressed ...

Curated by Northwestern art history professor Stephen Eisenman, “William Blake and the Age of Aquarius” is a meditation on the nature of influence, a fraught concept in art, music, poetry ...

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 ...