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.