Blake, William

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Basic data

  1. November 28, 1757 in London
  2. August 12, 1827 in London
  3. Dichter, Schriftsteller

Iconography

Portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807) (Source: Wikimedia)
28 Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in an illustration of 1912. Blake was born here and lived here until he was 25. The house was demolished in 1965.[15] (Source: Wikimedia)
The archetype of the Creator is a familiar image in Blake's work. Here, the demiurgic figure Urizen prays before the world he has forged. The Song of Los is the third in a series of illuminated books painted by Blake and his wife, collectively known as the Continental Prophecies. (Source: Wikimedia)
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (1786) (Source: Wikimedia)
Europe Supported by Africa and America engraving by William Blake (Source: Wikimedia)
The cottage in Felpham, Blake’s Cottage, where Blake lived from 1800 until 1803 (Source: Wikimedia)
'Skofeld' wearing "mind forged manacles" in Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion, Plate 51 (Source: Wikimedia)
Sketch of Blake from, circa 1804, by John Flaxman (Source: Wikimedia)
Blake's The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun (1805) is one of a series of illustrations of Revelation 12. (Source: Wikimedia)
William Blake's image of the Minotaur to illustrate Inferno, Canto XII, 12–28, The Minotaur XII (Source: Wikimedia)
Blake's The Lovers' Whirlwind illustrates Hell in Canto V of Dante's Inferno. (Source: Wikimedia)
"Head of William Blake" by James De Ville. Life mask taken in plaster cast in September 1823, Fitzwilliam Museum. (Source: Wikimedia)
Headstone in Bunhill Fields, London, erected on Blake's grave in 1927 and moved to its present location in 1964–65 (Source: Wikimedia)
Ledger stone on Blake's grave, unveiled in 2018 (Source: Wikimedia)
A memorial to William Blake in St James's Church, Piccadilly (Source: Wikimedia)
God blessing the seventh day, 1805 watercolour (Source: Wikimedia)
Urizen − from Blake's Ancient of Days, 1794. The "Ancient of Days" is described in Chapter 7 of the Book of Daniel. This image depicts Copy D of the illustration currently held at the British Museum.[89] (Source: Wikimedia)
The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve, c. 1825. Watercolour on wood. (Source: Wikimedia)
Blake's Newton (1795) demonstrates his opposition to the "single-vision" of scientific materialism: Newton fixes his eye on a pair of compasses (recalling Proverbs 8:27,[99] an important passage for Milton)[100] to write upon a scroll that seems to project from his own head.[101] (Source: Wikimedia)
Blake's Lot and His Daughters, Huntington Library, c. 1800 (Source: Wikimedia)
Blake's A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows, an illustration to J. G. Stedman's Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) (Source: Wikimedia)
The Ghost of a Flea, 1819–1820. Having informed painter-astrologer John Varley of his visions of apparitions, Blake was subsequently persuaded to paint one of them.[131] Varley's anecdote of Blake and his vision of the flea's ghost became well-known.[131] (Source: Wikimedia)
William Blake's portrait in profile, by John Linnell. This larger version was painted to be engraved as the frontispiece of Alexander Gilchrist's Life of Blake (1863). (Source: Wikimedia)
Memorial marking Blake's birthplace in Soho, City of Westminster (Source: Wikimedia)

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