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William Blake

1757–1827

Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims 1810, reprinted before 1881
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Engraving of a great spiralling whirlwind of entwined naked figures sweeping up from a dark sea, watched by a robed man standing over a prone body, with an embracing couple shown in a sun-like disc above

The Circle of the Lustful: Francesca da Rimini (‘The Whirlwind of Lovers’)

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892
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Ciampolo the Barrator Tormented by the Devils

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

The Baffled Devils Fighting

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

The Six-Footed Serpent Attacking Agnolo Brunelleschi

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

The Serpent Attacking Buoso Donati

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

The Pit of Disease: The Falsifiers

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

Dante Striking against Bocca Degli Abati

William Blake
1826–7, reprinted 1892

Job and his Family

William Blake
1828, reprinted 1874
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The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (after William Blake)

Attributed to John Linnell
c.1825
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The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (counterproof)

After William Blake
after c.1819–20
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A pale sculpted male head with closed eyes and a grim mouth, painted in chalky white, pink and grey strokes, floats against a near-black canvas like a death mask lit from within

Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake)

Francis Bacon
1955
In a darkened gallery, three video screens glow side by side showing a sunlit street with parked cars, a close-up of a young boy's face and a stone church, with an empty bench in the foreground

The Unfinished Conversation

Sir John Akomfrah CBE
2012

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Private View: Stay as you are, Mrs Blake

Tim Winton

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William Blake and Bob Marley: Poets and Prophets

Raymond Antrobus

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