William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… Blake to work on Mary Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories (1791), designing and engraving its illustrations, Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden (1791), engraving plates as well as adding to Fuseli’s design of ‘Fertilization of Egypt’, 8 … part of the fad for Gothic literature . 9 Through the Johnson circle Blake would have met Mary Wollstonecraft, Erasmus Darwin and Henry Fuseli as well as Joseph Priestley and William Godwin but there is no certainty about how many of …
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