[7] Not always without assistance from the eyes of others; for the portrait of Edward the First is clearly a reminiscence of that which in Blake’s time adorned Goldsmith’s History.
[8] It is observable that Job’s wife, so disadvantageously treated in Scripture, is by Blake represented as the sufferer’s loving companion throughout. This was probably out of tenderness to Mrs. Blake, from whom, indeed, upon a comparison between her portrait as a young woman and the ideal representation of the Patriarch’s spouse, his model for the latter would seem to have been derived; but if so the inference seems justified that Blake regarded the story of Job as emblematic of his own history.
[9] It must be now about thirty-five years since we received a visit from this person; how he had found us out we cannot recollect. He stated that he had lived by painting miniatures, and, having been deprived of his customers by photography, proposed to devote himself to historical painting, to the great prospective advantage of British art. He considered his forte to be the delineation of bare arms, and wished to be recommended to a subject which would afford scope for the exercise of this department of the pictorial faculty. We suggested the interment of the young princes in the Tower; he thanked us and departed; and we saw no more of him. He admitted having parted with all the relics of Blake that had been in his possession, but sought to convey that they had been sold, not destroyed, which may be partly true.
INDEX
- “America,” [29], [38], [40], [52]
- “Appeal to the Public,” [52]
- Aspland, Mr., [62]
- “Babylonian Woman, The”, [52]
- Bain, Thomas, [29]
- “Bard, The”, [56]
- Basire, James, [8]
- Blair’s Grave, Illustrations to, [49], [51], [52], [72]
- Blake, Catherine, [10], [18], [20], [29], [66], [70]
- Blake, James, [7], [8], [16]
- Blake, John, [8]
- Blake, Robert, [8], [17], [18]
- Blake, William;
- his birth and parentage, [7];
- sent to Pars School, [8];
- apprenticed to Basire, [9];
- marries Catherine Boucher, [10];
- settles in Poland Street, [18];
- removes to Lambeth, [28];
- his sojourn at Felpham and intercourse with Hayley, [47];
- returns to London, [49];
- his friendship with Linnell and Varley, [59], [60];
- his death, [72]
- Bognor, [41]
- “Book of Ahaniah, The”, [29]
- Boucher, Catherine see [Blake, Catherine]
- British Museum, [22], [62], [77]
- Butts, Thomas, [29], [43], [44], [52], [61], [62]
- Calvert, Edward, [66]
- “Canterbury Pilgrims, The”, [52], [56]
- Carey, William, [58]
- Cennini, Cennino, [73]
- “Christ in the Sepulchre,” [54]
- “Comus,” [62]
- Cowper, William, [41], [43], [44], [75]
- Crewe, Earl of, [38], [46], [62], [77]
- Cromek, Robert, [49], [51], [52]
- Cumberland, George, [59]
- Cunningham, Allan, [30], [56], [76]
- Dante, Illustrations to, [69], [70]
- “Death on the Pale Horse,” [58]
- Descriptive Catalogue by Blake, [52]
- Deville, [38]
- Eartham, [41]
- “Edward III.,” [13], [31]
- Ellis and Yeats, Messrs., [8], [18], [30], [32], [33], [35], [38], [45], [51], [54], [70], [76], [77]
- “Europe,” [31]
- “Everlasting Gospel, The”, [33]
- Felpham, [27], [41], [42], [44], [45], [48]
- Finch, G. O., [66]
- Flaxman, [15], [28], [41], [42], [59], [69]
- Fuseli, [27], [44], [59]
- “Gates of Paradise, The”, [29], [30], [52]
- Gilchrist, Alexander, [9], [14], [16], [19], [27], [29], [31], [38], [46], [49], [51], [52], [54], [60-62], [65], [66], [68], [73], [76]
- Godwin, William, [27]
- Gray, Illustrations to works of, [62]
- Hamilton, Duke of, [62]
- Hayley, William, [18], [42-44], [49]
- Holcroft, [27]
- Housman, [48], [77]
- “Jacob’s Dream,” [52]
- “Jerusalem,” [42], [45], [46], [48]
- Job, Illustrations to the Book of, [62], [64], [70], [77], [78]
- Johnson (publisher), [27], [44]
- “Joseph of Arimathæa,” [9]
- Lamb, Charles, [20], [51]
- Lawrence, Sir Thomas, [21], [59]
- Linnell, John, [30], [59], [60], [62], [64], [69], [72], [73]
- “Los, The Song of”, [29]
- Malkin, [9], [52]
- “Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The”, [29], [36]
- Matthews, [15]
- “Milton,” [46], [48], [49]
- “Morning,”, [9]
- “Nelson guiding Leviathan,” [56]
- O’Neil, [8]
- Ossian, [31]
- Paine, Tom, [27]
- Palmer, Samuel, [57], [66], [68]
- Paradise Lost, Illustrations for, [62]
- Parker, Robert, [16], [17]
- Pars, William, [8]
- “Penance of Jane Shore,” [9]
- Phillips, Thomas, [49]
- Piroli, [28]
- “Pitt guiding Behemoth,” [56]
- “Poetical Sketches,” [10], [13], [16], [19], [43]
- “Prophecies of America,” [37]
- “Proverbs of Hell,” [36]
- Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [57], [59]
- Richmond, George, [66]
- Robinson, Crabb, [32], [51], [59], [68-70]
- Rossetti, Dante, [38]
- Rossetti, William, [17], [20], [33], [38], [51], [61], [62], [65], [70], [76], [77]
- Ryland, William, [8]
- “Samson,” [31]
- “Satan calling up his Legions,” [56]
- Schiavonetti, [49], [51]
- Shields, Frederick, [29], [76]
- “Simple, David”, [16]
- Smetham, [77]
- Smith, J. T., [16]
- “Songs of Experience,” [15], [20], [21], [23-25], [27], [35], [76], [77]
- “Songs of Innocence,” [15], [20], [21], [23], [25], [27], [29], [35], [43], [76], [77]
- Stothard, Thomas, [16], [17], [51], [54], [59]
- Strange, J. C., [62]
- Swinburne, A. C., [30], [47], [56], [76]
- Tatham, [70], [71], [72]
- “Thel, The Book of”, [29], [31], [33], [36], [40], [47]
- Thomson, James, [77]
- Thornton, Dr., [65]
- “Tiriel,” [30]
- “Urizen,” [29], [43]
- “Vala,” [29], [77]
- Varley, John, [56], [60]
- “Vision of the Daughters of Albion,” [29], [37]
- Whitman, Walt, [31]
- Wilkinson, J. Garth, [76]
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, [27]
- Woollett, [54]
- Young’s Night Thoughts, Illustrations to, [29]