William Blake: Angels and Imagination
Famously, Blake often had visions of angels and even claimed to
converse with them.
In drawing on works from three of Blake’s
great series of illustrations for private patrons – Dante’s Divine
Comedy, Edward Young’s Night Thoughts, and the series of bible
illustrations for Thomas Butts – the exhibition aims to show
through the figure of the angel how Blake reinterpreted these texts
in the light of his own beliefs.
The New Art Gallery,
Walsall
7 October 2008 – 4 January 2009
Image: William Blake, Jacob's
Ladder, or Jacob's Dream, illustration to the Bible
painted for Thomas Butts, c.1799–1807