They belong to William Blake and are believed to be the earliest evidence of the 18th-century poet-artist’s engravings. The markings, many of which are invisible to the naked eye, stem from ...

Bodleian Libraries / University of Oxford Experts have discovered that doodles engraved on the reverse side of 18th-century printing plates may be the work of a young William Blake. The British ...

But it seems that even William Blake was ... his poetry career took off, Blake had worked as an apprentice to engraver James Basire. Mr Basire made pictorial prints - one of the main ways ...

You may know William Blake as a poet ... that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (flourished) books? Blake sought to marry his art with his poetry and unleash it ...

Some designs, including short shafted arrows, occur in Blake’s later work Courtesy of the Bodleian Libraries Originally made to print illustrations ... one of them William Blake, who began ...

Huntington Art Collections William Blake's Albion Rose, circa 1793 Blake believed we could all work on our imaginations, just like our abs or biceps, and aspire to joining him in "eternity".

William Blake was a deeply religious man who had a fascination with Christian mysticism, which informed his huge body of works "New light" will be shed on the English Romantic artist and poet ...

OXFORD, England (Reuters) – A series of boyhood doodles engraved on copper plates by English poet and painter William ... prints, one of the main ways to print illustrated books at the time ...