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❤️ WILLIAM BLAKE
Died on this day, in 1827
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
Eugène Delacroix, Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard, 1827–28 https://t.co/luw7LE1GjX #metmuseum #themet
Today in 1827, William Blake (probably my favourite painter/visionary nutter) died. This was the deathbed scene, as recorded by a friend who was there:
"I saw a procession of creatures of the size and colour of green and grey grasshoppers, bearing a body laid out on a rose leaf, which they buried with songs... It was a fairy funeral." (William Blake, #DOTD 1827)
🖼️ M. Pirner "Funeral of a Fairy" (1888)
#folklorethursday
The poet, painter and printmaker William Blake died #OTD in 1827.
We've got plenty of books about him and his work that you can borrow, and on the way home, why not visit both of his grave sites at Bunhill Fields burial ground - only a Red Dragon's breath away from here!
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"He who binds to himself a joy
Does the wingèd life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise."
English poet and painter William Blake died #OTD in 1827.
Books by William Blake at PG:
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William Blake, d otd 1827:
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
“He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”
1827, a Londra dov’era nato, muore il #poeta, #pittore e #incisore romantico e simbolista William Blake @SalzmanArt
William Blake
November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827
Celebrated today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver and mystic, his work — especially his poetry — was largely ignored during his lifetime...
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The proto-surrealist - Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901). Swiss Symbolist painter. Böcklin influenced Giorgio de Chirico, who said "Each of Böcklin's works is a shock". He also influenced other Surrealist painters like Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí.
Died #OTD 1850, Lancelot Shadwell, Ripon's MP from before 1826 until his appointment as Vice Chancellor 18 months later.
A talented barrister, Shadwell specialised in estate law & unsuccessfully attempted to introduce a bill on the matter in 1827.
🎨: NPG
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Seascape Study with Rain Cloud, 1827 #johnconstable #romanticism
Divine Comedy St Peter and St James with Dante and Beatrice
William Blake 1757-1827
William Blake, The Centaurs and the River of Blood (from Dante's "Divine Comedy"), 1824-1827 https://t.co/zzWypuo1as #williamblake
¡Buenos días!
Léon Belly (St. Omer, 1827 - Paris, 1877).
‘Peregrinos yendo a La Meca’ (1861, óleo sobre lienzo, 242 x 161 cm).
Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
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🐤 James Barnor, Drum Cover Girl Erlin Ibreck at Trafalgar Square, London 1966, printed 2010
⛵ J. M. W Turner, Sunset: A Boat on a River 1827
🏖️ Chris Steele-Perkins, from The Pleasure Principle 1980–9
🌊 Duncan Grant, Bathing 1911