William Blake was a bit of a nut ... Using a sticky concoction of opaque watercolors, Blake drew the image on a stiff board. He used the drawing as a kind of printing plate, stamping it onto ...

Blake’s works are very, very delicate — many are watercolors — and to expose them to light at all is a risky business. The staging of William Blake’s Universe in other respects is very good.

Plate 8 from “America, a Prophecy,” printed about 1807, by William Blake. Color-printed relief etching with pen and ink and watercolor.Credit...Yale Center for British Art, New Haven No one ...

Quaritch, 1972). Graphic Arts Collection (GAX) Oversize ND1942.B55 A4 1972f In 1795, William Blake (1757-1827) was given a commission to illustrate the poems of Edward Young (1681-1765). He produced ...

William Blake, The Lovers’ Whirlwind, Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, between 1824 and 1827, pen, ink and watercolor, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery William Blake died on August 12, 1827.

They belong to William Blake and are believed to be the earliest ... a motif he would later use in two of his watercolor paintings of Milton’s Paradise Lost. “For the first time since they ...

A rare book of poetry and artwork by William Blake sold for a sky-high US$4.3 ... It also has 54 pen- and watercolor-etched plates. The 230-year-old book also showcases Blake’s innovative ...

This etching of a small face may be one of William Blake's earliest engravings. © Bodleian Libraries / University of Oxford Experts have discovered that doodles ...

Two of William Blake’s greatest patrons were ... dozen or so Hebrew inscriptions in Blake’s etchings and watercolors show that Blake was fluent in Hebrew. But close analysis of the works ...