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The Works of William Blake in the Huntington Collections

Robert N Essick (Author)

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Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN: 9780873280846
January 1985
$20.00, £13.95

This complete catalogue of William Blake's work from the richly comprehensive collections of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery features a full introduction and explanatory text by a leading Blake scholar and covers the artist's entire oeuvre: his pencil sketches, watercolor drawings, tempera paintings, engravings, etchings, relief color printing, illustrated and illuminated books, and printed writings.

Robert N. Essick is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Among his many books are William Blake, Printmaker, selected by CHOICE as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1980-81, and William Blake at the Huntington, a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection. Essick specializes in British romantic literature and art, particularly William Blake. He is currently working on the Blake Electronic Archive.

"A very helpful guide to one of the great Blake collections."—The Drawing Society

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