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William Blake in Sussex - Visions of Albion (Paperback)
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William Blake in Sussex - Visions of Albion (Paperback)
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Disillusioned with London life and struggling to make a living,
Blake and his wife Catherine went in 1800 to live at the coastal
village of Felpham, which the artist soon described as "the
sweetest spot on earth". Providing his principal encounters with
both English rural life and the coast, the artist's three years "on
the banks of the ocean" informed his two greatest illustrated epic
poems, Milton and Jerusalem, and continued to be refl ected in his
work for the rest of his career: "In Felpham", claimed Blake, "I
saw and heard Visions of Albion". In addition to the work
associated with Felpham, this publication considers the collections
of nearby Petworth House, which include three major paintings by
Blake - otherwise unrepresented in other grand houses of Britain -
along with related prints, books and archival material. The authors
will examine the relationships formed by Blake in Sussex,
particularly with the poet William Hayley, the sculptor John
Flaxman, the 3rd Earl of Egremont (one of the great collectors of
contemporary art in the early 19th century) and his estranged wife
Elizabeth Ilive, who commissioned two of the three paintings now in
Petworth. Blake's work for Hayley, often dismissed as illustrative
and decorative, will be reappraised, and other projects he worked
on in Sussex - including remarkable biblical watercolours produced
for his great London patron, Thomas Butts - will be celebrated.
Blake's infamous arrest and trial for sedition - chief among the
events profoundly aff ecting him in Sussex - will be discussed. It
is not widely known that Blake was tried fi rst in Petworth, where
he was vouched for by the 3rd Earl.
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