大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 8月13日 01時02分

Poet, printmaker and artist William Blake died #onthisday in 1827.

He invented ‘illuminated printing’ – where text and image are combined on a single sheet 🖼

Do you have a favourite work by Blake? Let us know 👇

🔎 William Blake (1757–1827), Jacob's Ladder, or Jacob's Dream, illustration to the Bible painted for Thomas Butts, Genesis, xxviii. Pen and grey ink and watercolour, c.1799–1807.

🔎 William Blake (1757–1827), 'As if an angel dropped down from the clouds', illustration to Shakespeare’s 'Henry IV, Part I' IV, i, 108-9. Pen and grey ink, and watercolour, 1809.

🔎 William Blake (1757–1827), 'I flew, I snatcht her from the rigid North', illustration to Edward Young's 'Night Thoughts'. Pen and grey ink, with grey wash and watercolour; page of text mounted on drawing, 1795–1797.

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