William blake

Tempera on copper entitled 'Eve Tempted by the Serpent' by William Blake. Great Britain, ca. 1799-1800.

The series of twenty-one watercolor illustrations for the Book of Job are one of Blake's supreme achievements. Here, God reenacts the creation of the world, while Job and his wife kneel below. The scene follows the moment in which Job challenged God to appear and explain why he deserved the succession of evils that devastated him. "Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind . . . Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . When the morning stars sang together, and…

This hideous head of a man howling in torment is also known as "Head of a Damned Soul in Dante's Inferno." Impressions of the print are very rare—only five known proofs of a single state are extant—and the general lack of lettering on known examples suggests that the print was never properly published. Blake likely executed this large-scale print ca. 1790 as an experiment to entertain his friend Henry Fuseli. This copy once belonged to the great Blake scholar Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887–1982)…

When we speak of the poetry or painting of place, we generally refer to words and images that celebrate or else investigate some fixed location. And yet, given that all creative works have arisen f…

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has always been a place of surprises, which has made it an absolutely fitting place for “William Blake: Apprentice and Master,” an exhibition that is at once didactic and very strange. The exhibition left me dazed by the technical detail but aware that I would never look at a Blake work in the same way again.

On the eve of a major exhibition on the printmaker, painter and poet, Fiona Maddocks chooses her 10 favourite works

On the eve of a major exhibition on the printmaker, painter and poet, Fiona Maddocks chooses her 10 favourite works

The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the main character of Adam Sachs’s debut novel, The Organs of Sense, had a minor obsession with

Poster, Available in a variety of sizes (select size above). Printed on museum-quality photo paper using archival ink rated for 80+ year fade resistance. Ships in mailing tube to prevent bending. Ready to be framed and displayed. Also available on canvas, stretched and mounted on solid-wood gallery frame

William Blake - To See a World...