… Henry Fuseli as well as Joseph Priestley and William Godwin but there is no certainty about how many of Johnson’s dinner parties Blake attended. 10 Blake benefited from the Johnson circle; he met, for example, Thomas Holcroft who …
… emptied in front of an audience that remained for a large part anonymous – indeed, bidders could be agents for third parties or even buying-in their own goods to ensure that sales did not translate into loss. There remained powerful …