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"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour."
William Blake
2/2 Evil and good angels & unhappy child, 1800, by poet & artist William Blake.
Happy Birthday, William Blake!
👁 Check out my webcomic “The Poet and the Flea” about Blake & his nightmarish creation The Ghost of a Flea: https://t.co/boanM3N0nY
👁 The @Blake_Society’s VALA #2 (which features one of my illustrations) is now available: https://t.co/4bkk6oaQd0
Today is William Blake’s Birthday (1757-1827)! A seminal figure of the Romantic artistic era, Blake’s work is outwardly emblematic of #Romanticism's belief in the power of narrative and the imagination to convey profound ideas and emotions. (1/8)
#OTD in 1757, William Blake was born in London to Catherine and James Blake. HBD, beloved Mr. Blake!🎂🎉
"William Blake" from The Grave; composed c. 1807-08; delineated by Thomas Phillips; engraved by Luigi Schiavonetti; printed 1808; etching and engraving.
2/2 Good morning! Satan arousing the Rebel Angels, by William Blake. Today is his day. (Blake, not Satan, as far as I know)
One of Maurice Sendak's artistic idols was William Blake. Not only did Sendak illustrate an edition of Songs of Innocence, but the art in his own My Brother's Book was deeply shaped in style by Blake's.
earlier this month @drawnchorusers had our exhibition WORDS TO LIVE BY at the wonderful @espaciogallery. the show featured work containing typographical elements- which i took as an excuse to draw 'What If William Blake Was Commissioned To Make Live, Laugh Love Posters?'
“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake, who was born #OTD in 1757
Happy Birthday William Blake, #BornThisDay in 1757. We mark this by sharing one of our most iconic works from our collection, The Ancient of Days, which is currently on show in our Standardisation and Deviation exhibition.
https://t.co/IWFkZVMkyD
#WilliamBlake #GalleryInThePark
Born #OnThisDay in 1757: English poet, painter, and printmaker #WilliamBlake (1757-1827)
Self-portrait, 1802
#Blake #EnglishArt #EnglishLiterature
Poet, painter, printmaker and visionary, William Blake was born on this day in 1757.
Here's an article I wrote for Horrified Magazine, placing Blake in the horror tradition:
https://t.co/1VP50DL82b
#horror #BOTD
This week’s Cosplay Girl of the Week BLAKELEE ORTEGA
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William Blake was born #OTD in 1757. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” (1743) by Scottish poet Robert Blair, one of the so-called Graveyard Poets.
The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
By an Open Grave
#WilliamBlake #Romanticism #Gothic
William Blake
November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827
Celebrated today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver and mystic, his timeless work has never been more relevant...