New in the William Blake Archive
Posted by elizabeth on 25 Jul 2008 in Announcements
Link: http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/public/update.html
The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of electronic editions of Blake’s illustrations to John Milton’s “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” and Paradise Lost. The six “Nativity Ode” water colors were acquired, and probably commissioned, by Thomas Butts in about 1815. This series is now in the Huntington Library and Art Gallery. The group of three Paradise Lost water colors was acquired, and almost certainly commissioned, by John Linnell in 1822. The first two designs are now in the National Gallery of Victoria; the third is in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Both sets are presented in our Preview mode, one that provides all the features of the Archive except Image Search and Inote (our image annotation program). With this publication, the Archive now contains all nine of Blake’s series of water colors illustrating Milton’s poetry.Read more...