William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… and Auckland: Double Day Anchor Books, 1988). The page number appears after E in the main text. Blake is a religious artist, inspired by continual Bible reading and his mother’s Moravian background. 3 He had a life-long interest in … Blake’s Commercial Book Illustrations: A Catalogue and Study of the Plates Engraved by Blake after Designs by Other Artists (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991). 10 . ‘It seems somewhat unlikely that the artisan William Blake was a member of … are characteristic of the changes in the marketplace. In the late eighteenth century, the old system of patronage, where artists were sponsored, was replaced by a commercial culture where works were purchased rather than commissioned. Some of …
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