William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… social networks tie into his projects. Poetical Sketches (1783), a collection of juvenilia and only work to appear in letterpress, was financed by Flaxman and the Reverend A.S. Mathew (1734-1824) and his wife Harriet Mathew (1743-1815), … (1757-1845), a civil servant, now recognised as Blake’s main collector. Many of Blake’s patrons were his friends - the letters make explicit familiarity and sympathy . Blake wrote to the Editor of the Monthly Review to defend Fuseli, whose … Sons Starving to Death in the Tower , exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1806, had been attacked by reviewers. In this letter, published on 1 July 1806, Blake gives moral support through his ‘indignation’ at the ‘widely-diffused malice […] …
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