[copy] Circular letter by William Blake, to Ozias Humphry

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

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Reference code

AND/13/277

Title

[copy] Circular letter by William Blake, to Ozias Humphry

Date

15 May 1809

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

"Exhibition of paintings in fresco poetical & historical Inventions, by Wm. Blake". Lists the works on display, admission 2s6d per person.

Added to this, and noted as having been in Blake's handwriting in the original, is a polemic on Blake's technique of "portable fresco". He explains that his works have regularly been excluded by the Royal Academy and the British Institution and this has compelled him to exhibit them himself. He mentions a scheme for painting Westminster Hall.