كتاب
William Blake in the desolate market
| العنوان: | William Blake in the desolate market |
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| المؤلفون: | Bentley, G. E., Jr. (Gerald Eades), 1930- author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| وصف مادي: | xx, 244 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Engravers -- Great Britain -- Biography., Poets, English -- 18th century -- Biography., Biography. |
| Subject Person: | Blake, William, 1757-1827., Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Finance, Personal. |
| الوصف: | "G.E. Bentley, Jr., the dean of Blake scholars, details the poet's occupations as a commercial engraver, print-seller, teacher, copperplate printer, painter, publisher, and vendor of his own books. In his early career as a commercial engraver, Blake was modestly prosperous, but thereafter his fortunes declined. For his most ambitious commercial designs, he made hundreds of folio designs and scores of engravings, but was paid scarcely more than twenty pounds for two or three years' work. His invention of illuminated printing lost money, and many of his greatest works, such as Jerusalem, were left unsold at his death. He came to believe that his 'business is not to gather gold, but to make glorious shapes.' William Blake in the Desolate Market is an investigation of Blake's labours to support himself by his arts. The changing prices of his works, his costs and receipts, as well as his patrons and employers are expertly gathered and displayed to show the material side of the artistic career in Britain's Romantic period."--Publisher's Web site. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction: Blake in the marketplace -- Blake as a commercial engraver, 1772-1827 -- "A blaze of reputation": The Mathew Salon and Poetical sketches (1783) -- The print shop, 1784-1785 -- Blaks as a teacher, 1784-1827 -- Blakes as printers, 1784-1827 -- Blake as a painter, 1779-1827 -- Blake as publisher of works in conventional typography -- Blake's works in illuminated printing, 1789-1827 -- Summary of Blake's career -- Appendix: Blake's patrons. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn865225378 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-7735-4306-5 0-7735-4306-6 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214) and index. Issued also in electronic format. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014065185.3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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