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William Blake; Plate 24 Marriage of Heaven and Hell, c.1790. Exact replica
print by Michael Philips; see in depth information at:
www.williamblakeprints.co.uk

William Blake, poet, visionary, engraver, is at once remarkable for the position
he occupies in the world of literature and of art. He was apprenticed at the age
of fourteen to James Basire, the engraver, of Lincoln's Inn Fields. Blake loved art for it's
own sake. "Were I to love money," he said, "I should lose all power of thought;
desire of gain deadens the genius of man. I might roll in wealth and ride in a
golden chariot, were I to listen to the voice of parsimony. My business is not to
gather gold, but to make glorius shapes, expressing god-like sentiments."