Blake, William, 1757-1827
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1757-11-28 - 1827-08-12
William Blake (1757-1827), English artist and poet
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
William Blake collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 914
Overview:
The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and drawings by the English artist William Blake and his colleague John Linnell. Included are business and financial documents covering the relationship between Blake and Linnell, a letter from Blake to Linnell, two drawings by Blake, and a portrait of Blake by Linnell. The items were acquired by the library between 1941 and 1973.
Dates:
1780-1957, bulk 1780-1834
Death of the Strong Wicked Man. Mort D'Un Rèprouvè. Blake. Normand fils., undated
Item — Box: 2-494
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
Outline engraving reproducing William Blake's "Death of the strong wicked man", accompanied by a short text explaining the work.
Dates:
undated
Death's Door. La porte du tombeau. Blake. Normand fils., undated
Item — Box: 2-491
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
Outline engraving reproducing William Blake's "Death's door", accompanied by a short text explaining the work.
Dates:
undated
Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens
Collection
Call Number: MSS 10
Overview:
This collection comprises an extra-illustrated copy--with many engravings and original manuscript letters--of the second edition of John Thomas Smith's Nollekens and his times, comprehending a life of that celebrated sculptor: and memoirs of several contemporary artists, from the time of Roubillac, Hogarth, and Reynolds, to that of Fuseli, Flaxman, and Blake (London : Henry Colburn, 1829).
Dates:
1708-1875, bulk 1768-1836
Letter to John Thomas Smith., 1828 November 19
Item — Box: 2-472
Call Number: MSS 10
Scope and Contents:
Asking "Can you tell me where the widow of Blake the artist lives?". The writer is presumably to be identified both with the William Twopenny referred to as pupil-master to Charles Winston and the man of this name who was a collector and who was the principal patron of the artist John Wykenham Archer.
Dates:
1828 November 19
Tracings of illustrations by William Blake for Dante's Divina Commedia.
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1396
Overview:
The collection consists of a series of tracings by John Linnell of 99 of the 102 drawings made by William Blake to illustrate Dante's Divina Commedia.
Dates:
1831
Six small engravings, some of which are perhaps by William Blake and others perhaps after his drawings., undated
Item — Box: 2-472
Call Number: MSS 10
Dates:
undated