When Blake died in 1827, just short of 70, young George Richmond, a future Royal Academician, closed the artist's eyes "to keep the vision in." A writer, engraver, printmaker and painter, Blake, who ...

You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated (flourished ...

Oxford University’s Bodleian Libraries has announced the discovery of lines, swirls, squiggles, and doodles worth getting excited about. They belong to William Blake and are believed to be the ...

William Blake’s twin talents came from a singular genius. The entrancing paintings and engravings that make up his great art comprise the biblical and the phantasmagorical: shimmering angels and ...

William Blake was a bit of a nut. That’s partly why we like him so much. The great British Romantic artist, whose lifespan (1757-1827) roughly corresponded with that of mad King George III, aimed to ...

The Frankenstein Chronicles imagines a grisly murder spree gripping 1827 London. Children are being abducted, murdered, and sold to someone cutting them apart and reassembling them Frankenstein-style.

William Blake’s drawings, paintings, prints and illustrations are heavenly, cosmic, spiritual, mind-expanding and consciousness-raising. What they aren’t is large. The Yale Center for British Art, ...