William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… 1 Blake went to Henry Pars’ Drawing School (1767-72) and was apprenticed to James Basire (1730-1802), engraver to the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society. Blake trained as a journeyman engraver and contributed to Richard Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain … the Lawgiver’, and several others, they form an imagined community of gossipy philosophers, resembling t he Birmingham Lunar Society : ‘ In the Moon, is a certain Island near by a mighty continent, which small island seems to have some …
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