Charles Davis writes “from the Independent Digital:
A dozen William Blake watercolours have been returned to Britain to be put on display for the first time in nearly a century, marking the 200th anniversary of the writing of the poem that gave the nation one of its most famous hymns, Jerusalem.
The watercolours illustrate each of the 12 books of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the epic poem that inspired Blake as an artist and a writer. Completed in 1807, these paintings are more delicately drawn than later Blake sets on the same subject, which have been sold by the millions as postcard prints.”
Milton, Blake and Pullman
Thanks for the link to this article! I’m a real fan of Phillip Pullman’s and would love to read any follow-up articles on this. Also very interested to hear if the exhibit might travel to the USA – specifically NY. Again, thank you.
Online Blake archive
Fans of Blake should know about the William Blake Archive, a project developed at the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. IATH is one of the pioneers in digital projects in the humanities in the United States, and this is just one of many wonderful projects they have fostered and carried out.
Re:Online Blake archive
Thank you for those links ChuckB. I haven’t had time to delve into them in any depth, but I’m looking forward to it – especially searching for a specific painting of Blake’s that looks like Zeus/God crouching down on one leg from on high with a thunder bolt in his hand.