- Also known as
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William Blake
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primary name: Blake, William
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other name: Parker & Blake
- Details
- individual; author/poet; printmaker; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1757-1827
- Address
- 23 Green Street, near Leicester Square, 1782-83
27 Broad St, Golden Square (as Parker & Blake), 1784
28 Poland Street, Soho, 1785
13 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, 1790
Felpham, Sussex, 1800-03
17 South Molton Street, 1803
3 Fountain Court, Strand, 1821
- Biography
- Poet and printmaker; trained and worked as a commercial engraver, but chiefly remembered for his original work as an artist, poet and illustrator; invented his own technique of relief etching to produce his "illuminated printing"; printed and hand-finished his books in small numbers, each copy being unique.
- Bibliography
- David Bindman, 'The Complete Graphic Works of William Blake', 1978
David Bindman, 'Blake as an artist', Oxford 1977.
Robert N.Essick, 'William Blake Printmaker', Princeton 1980
Joseph Viscomi, 'Blake and the Idea of the Book', Princeton 1993
